Douglas Gray

Broschiertes Buch

Later Medieval English Literature

Winner of the 2010 Beatrice White Prize

Beschreibung

A guide to the literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the early sixteenth century from one of the period's pre-eminent literary scholars. Includes a valuable a chronology, an informative introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry, Scottish writing, and drama. A guide to the literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the early sixteenth century from one of the period's pre-eminent literary scholars. Includes a valuable chronology, an informative introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry, Scottish writing, and drama.

Autor

Douglas Gray was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He moved to Oxford in 1954, and spent his academic life there, first as a Fellow of Pembroke College, then from 1980 as the first J. R. R. Tolkein Professor, at Lady Margaret Hall. His numerous publications include The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose (with Norman Davis and others); The Oxford Companion to Chaucer; and the Penguin edition of theSelected Poems of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 650
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2008
• Deutsch, Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 1208g
• ISBN-13: 9780198122180
• ISBN-10: 0198122187
• Artikelnr.: 23518411

Rezensionen

this anthology gives students and scholars an opportunity to learn much about late medieval England firsthand from a principal, but often underrated, medium of communication, the pulpit. Journal of English and Germanic Philology