18 books like A guide to the Middle English metrical romances

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English literature at the close of the Middle Ages E. K. Chambers · 1945 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "The Greatest Books of All Time" is a selection of the most celebrated books in history, including complete novels. Unlike other rankings, this collection is based on a consensus of readers and critics, ensuring an unbiased list of the very best literature ever written. From captivating love stories to epic adventures, these timeless novels have enchanted audiences for generations. Whether you're… Shares: English Romances, Knights and knighthood in literature, Bibliography, Civilization

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Meg Stainsby · 1992 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a Middle English late 14th-century chivalric romance in alliterative verse. The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later. It is one of the best-known Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs: the beheading game and the exchange of winnings. Written in stanzas of alliterative verse, each of which ends in a rhyming bob and… Shares: Knights and knighthood in literature, Bibliography, Romances, Arthurian romances

Iwain Arthur Charles Lewis Brown · 1903 · 147p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Ywain , also known as Yvain and Owain (among many other spellings), is a Knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend. Tradition often portrays him as the son of King Urien of Gorre and of either the supernatural figure Modron or the sorceress Morgan. The historical Owain mab Urien, the basis of the literary character, ruled as the king of Rheged in Britain during the late-6th century. Shares: Knights and knighthood in literature, Romances, Arthurian romances, History and criticism

Malory Eugène Vinaver · 1929 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Sir Thomas Malory was an English writer, the author of Le Morte d'Arthur, the classic English-language chronicle of the Arthurian legend, compiled and in most cases translated from French sources, and published by the famed London printer William Caxton in 1485. Much of Malorys life history is obscure, but he identified himself as a "knight prisoner", apparently reflecting that he was either a… Shares: English Romances, Knights and knighthood in literature, Romances, Arthurian romances

The book of romance Andrew Lang · 1902 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Challenging From the Andrew Lang prismatic series, this is the "Book of Romance", a most attractive selection of what the editor calls "fairy-tales grown up," the Round Table romances and similar stories, with colored pictures and line pictures by H. J . Ford-making a book for the reside dreaming of romantic curly-heads, who will be unaware that they are learning the lore of their race… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances, English literature

The quest of the Holy Grail Jessie L. Weston · 1913 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Published in 1965: In the following pages the author has endeavoured to give, as clearly and concisely as possible, a description of the literature composing the Grail cycle, an analysis of its content and a survey of the leading theories to which this perplexing body of romance has given rise. Shares: Knights and knighthood in literature, Romances, Arthurian romances, History and criticism

Brut Layamon · 1924 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "This version of Brut is a rendering into modern English, in verse format, of the Middle English story of Britain, from its founding by the legendary Brutus, a supposed descendant of the Trojans, to the final loss of land and prestige when the Saxons took over Britain. Lawman, a priest in the Welsh Marches in the diocese of Worcester, was translating from the twelfth-century French octosyllabic… Shares: English Romances, Romances, English poetry, Arthurian romances

Méliador Jean Froissart · 1895 Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Introduction to the Gawain-Poet Ad Putter · 2014 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The late 14th century produced a crop of brilliant writers: Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Their achievement was rivalled only by a series of four works generally agreed to have been written by a single northern author, known as the Gawain-Poet. This book introduces the reader to the Gawain-poet's four surviving works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl and Cleanness. The four poems… Shares: Knights and knighthood in literature, Civilization, English poetry, Arthurian romances

The Thornton romances James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps · 1844 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: English Romances, Romances, English poetry, Arthurian romances

Complete Concordance to Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parzival Clifton D. Hall · 2020 · 798p · ≈ 26h · Moderate Originally published in 1990, this massive work of scholarship provides an invaluable reference tool for efficient textual investigation to a medieval masterpiece and one of the most significant Middle High German poems. Function words and selected high frequency words with related forms, omitted from many concordances, are given in single verse context in the Verse Concordance. The shorter… Shares: Knights and knighthood in literature, Romances, Arthurian romances

Layamons Brut, or Chronicle of Britain Layamon · 1847 · 676p · ≈ 22h · Demanding It is a history book. Roman de Brut or Brut is a verse literary history of Britain by the poet Wace. Written in the Norman language, it consists of 14, 866 lines. It is based on Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, and was probably begun around 1150 and finished in 1155. It was intended for a Norman audience interested in the legends and history of the new territories of the… Shares: English Romances, Romances, Arthurian romances

He Robert A. Johnson · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 81p · ≈ 2h · Moderate “Entertaining, informative, thought-provoking, mysterious, poetic. Men who read it will surely learn much about themselves, and women—particularly those who are unfortunately misled into thinking of men as “the enemy”—will find it a real eye-opener.”—Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse, M.D., Th.M., Harvard University Robert A. Johnson's classic work exploring the differences between man and woman, female and… Shares: Knights and knighthood in literature, Romances, Arthurian romances, History and criticism

Five Middle English Arthurian romances Valerie Krishna · 1991 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The poems in this collection will give the reader an appreciation of both the distinctiveness and the variety of the medieval English Arthurian tradition and highlight some of this important chapter in Arthurian legend literature. The Middle English stories are different in style and structure to the later French romances, composed in poetic forms that derive from native English traditions. The… Shares: English Romances, Romances, English poetry, Arthurian romances

The Grail Dhira B. Mahoney · 2000 · 600p · ≈ 20h · Moderate The Holy Grail () is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature. Various traditions describe the Holy Grail as a cup, dish, or stone with miraculous healing powers, sometimes providing eternal youth or sustenance in infinite abundance, often guarded in the custody of the Fisher King and located in the hidden Grail castle. By analogy, any elusive object or goal of great… Shares: Knights and knighthood in literature, Romances, Arthurian romances, History and criticism

King Arthur in history and legend William Lewis Jones · 1911 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This early 20th-century study of King Arthur attempts to trace the historical origins of the legendary tales. Shares: Arthurian romances, History and criticism

Middle English literature George Kane · 1951 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Originally published in 1951 Middle English Literature applies methods of literary evaluation to certain Middle English works. Arguing that previous literary criticism has largely focused on the commentary of their historical, social, philological and religious content, the book suggests that it has led to a thinking that Middle English literature is without artistic value and therefore cannot be… Shares: English Romances, English poetry, History and criticism, English literature

Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas Malory · 1557 · ★ 3.9 · 518p · ≈ 17h · Demanding Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, ungrammatical Middle French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table—along with their respective folklore. In order to tell a "complete" story of Arthur from his conception to his… Shares: English Romances, Romances, Arthurian romances, History and criticism

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