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Epistemological Perspective of the Pearl-Poet Piotr Spyra · 2014 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Original and engaging, this study presents the four anonymous poems found in the Cotton Nero MS - Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - as a composite text with a continuous narrative. While it is widely accepted that the poems attributed to the Pearl-Poet ought to be read together, this book demonstrates that instead of being analyzed as four distinct, though… Shares: Pearl, Christian poetry, Poésie anglaise, Cycle d'Arthur

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: Middle English, Christian poetry, Histoire et critique, English poetry

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: Christian poetry, Poésie anglaise, Histoire et critique, English poetry

Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts Gloria Allaire · 2018 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Published in 1999, the ten essays in this collection identify and examine reworkings of identifiable source texts from the medieval or Renaissance periods. The reasons for the modern adaptations depend variously on an individual author’s personal perspectives, the worldview of his or her society, and the individual’s place in it. The various chapters therefore address issues such as why a… Shares: Cycle d'Arthur, Histoire et critique, Arthurian romances, History and criticism

Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry John Arthos · 1949 · 476p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Originally published in 1949, this title was written in order to help establish a better understanding of the ‘stock diction’ of eighteenth-century English poetry, and, in particular, of the diction commonly used in the description of nature. The language characteristic of so much of the poetry of this period had been severely criticized for a long time. But in the twenty or thirty years prior to… Shares: Poésie anglaise, Histoire et critique, English poetry, 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: Poésie anglaise, Cycle d'Arthur, English poetry, Arthurian romances

Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth · 1798 · ★ 4.0 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry. Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of "Lyrical Ballads" allows modern readers to recapture the book's original impact. In these poems including Wordsworth's Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey and… Shares: Poésie anglaise, Histoire et critique, English poetry, History and criticism

Pastoral Terry Gifford · 1999 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Terry Gifford clarifies the different uses of pastoral, and traces the history of the genre from its classical origins in the poetic dialogues of supposed shepherds, to Elizabethan dramas such as The Winters Tale, through the pastoral poetry of Pope, Wordsworth and Clare, to the more recent rural novels and contemporary American nature writing. Beginning with constructions of Arcadia, the book… Shares: Literary form, Histoire et critique, History and criticism

Merlin and Legendary Romance Carol Harding · 2014 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate An indepth work on the origins of the Merlin of Arthurian legend, this book examines early texts, thirteenth century romances focusing particularly on Merlin as a character, rather than those where Merlin is a background cast member. The outline here starts with looking at the genre and the place of fantasy, moving on to consider the attitudes towards magic and magic-users in medieval times. Main… Shares: Cycle d'Arthur, Histoire et critique, Arthurian romances, History and criticism

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: Middle English, English poetry, Arthurian romances

Arthurian Legend Margaret J. C. Reid · 2014 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate First published in 1938, this study explores the reception of the mythology of King Arthur by modern poets and playwrights. More specifically, the author explores the lineage of the legendary material since the first edition of Malory in 1485, exploring a vast range of artists who have made use of it: Spenser, Milton and Dryden, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Hardy, Matthew Arnold, and even Wagner. The… Shares: Cycle d'Arthur, Histoire et critique, Arthurian romances, History and criticism

Arthurian Revival Debra Mancoff · 2014 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Discrete inquiries into 15 forms of the Arthurian legends produced over the last century explore how they have altered the tradition. They consider works from the US and Europe, and those aimed at popular and elite audiences. The overall conclusion is that the "Arthurian revival" is an ongoing event, and has become multivalent, multinational, and multimedia. Originally published in 1992. Shares: Cycle d'Arthur, Histoire et critique, Arthurian romances, History and criticism

The Defense Of Guenevere And Other Poems William Morris · 1858 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging In this book, Morris explores many of the ideas and themes that would provide continued inspiration throughout his long and influential career -- especially those arising out of the Arthurian tradition, such as "King Arthur's Tomb", and "Sir Galahad, A Christmas Mystery". Shares: Poésie anglaise, English poetry, Arthurian romances

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

King Arthur in antiquity Graham Anderson · 2003 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This original and compelling study argues against the traditional identification of Arthur as a king in Celtic Britain. Instead, Graham Anderson explores the evidence for two much older figures, known to classical writers as kings of Arcadia and Lydia, over a millenium before.He shows how these kings can be clearly connected with traditional Arthurian characters and adventure, including an… Shares: In literature, Histoire et critique, Arthurian romances, History and criticism

The five nations Rudyard Kipling · 1903 · ★ 5.0 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Five Nations, Rudyard Kipling. TEI XML version of http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/five/ . Shares: Poésie anglaise, English poetry

Arthurian literature and Christianity Peter Meister · 1999 · 225p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Intended as "the other bookend" to Jessie Weston's work some eighty years earlier, this essay collection provides a careful overview of recent scholarship on possible overlap between Arthurian literature and Christianity. From Ritual to romance and Notes, taken together, bracket contemporary inquiry into the relationship (if any) between Jesus and Arthur. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste… Shares: Cycle d'Arthur, Histoire et critique, Arthurian romances, History and criticism

Pearl Sir Israel Gollancz · 1891 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Yellow and golden pearls: yellow-green, greenish brown to dark brown; Shares: Pearl, English poetry, Arthurian romances

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