Edited by J. B. Trapp, Douglas Gray and Julia Boffey
Editors' Preface:
Introduction: Medieval English Literature:
OLD ENGLISH POETRY
Caedmon's Hymn
Beowulf
Judith
from The Death of Holofernes
Elegies
The Wanderer
The Wife's Complaint
The Husband's Message
Wulf and
Eadwacer
Engimas and Wisdom
The Queen and the Frisian Wife
Riddles
Genesis B
from The Temptation of Eve
The Dream of the Rood
The Battle of Maldon
GEOFFREY CHAUCER, c. 1343-1400
The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue
The Miller's Prologue
and Tale
The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale
Two Other Fox Stories
from The Bestiary
from Robert Henryson, Fables
The Fox and the Wolf
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
William Dunbar
from The Two Married Women and the Widow
The Franklin's
Prologue and Tale
Gentilesse
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
from The Legend of Good Women
The Legend of Thisbe of Babylon
Troilus and Criseyde
Robert Henryson
The Complaint of Cresseid
Chaucer's Words unto Adam, His Own Scribe
Chaucer's
Retractions
ROMANCE
Sir Orfeo
Thomas the Rhymer
The Land of Cokaygne
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Thomas Malory
from Morte Darthur
[The Birth of Arthur and the Sword in the Stone]
[The Fair Maid of Astolat]
[The
Death of Arthur]
THE VISIONS OF PIERS PLOWMAN
from the Prologue
from Passus I
from Passus XVIII
THEATER
The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play
The Chester Play of Noah
Everyman
from The Castle of Perseverance: The Seven Deadly
Sins
WOMEN'S WRITING AND WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE
Ancrene Wisse (A Guide for Anchoresses)
Holy Maidenhood (A Letter on Virginity)
Saint Scholastica
The Book of Margery Kempe
What So Men Sayn
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
Spring
Now Springs the Spray
Sumer is
Ycomen In
The Thrush and the Nightingale
Alison
Separated Lovers
Western Wind
He Is Far
I Have a Young Sister
The Maid of the Moor
The Agincourt Carol
Bring Us In Good Ale
I Have Set My Heart So High
All Too Late
A Woman Sat Weeping
Divine
Love
I Sing of a Maiden
Of One That Is So Fair and Bright
Adam Lay Ybounden
Corpus Christi Carol
BALLADS
The Cherry-Tree Carol
The Two Magicians
The Carpenter's Wife [The Demon Lover]
The Wife of Usher's Well
The Unquiet Grave
Lord Randel
The
Three Ravens
The Birth of Robin Hood
Sir Patrick Spence
WILLIAM DUNBAR, c. 1460-c. 1514
Lament for the Makers
WILLIAM CAXTON, 1415/24-1492
The Proem to The Canterbury Tales
from the Preface to The Aeneid
Glossary:
Suggestions for Further Reading:
Author and Title Index:
First-Line Index:
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J. B. Trapp is at University of London. Douglas Gray is at Oxford University.
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