Synopses & Reviews
The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1A, The Middle Ages and Volume 1B, The Early Modern Period, continue their tradition of presenting works in the historical context in which they were written. This fresh approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented female authors, “Perspectives” sections that shed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme, “And Its Time” clusters that illuminate a specific cultural moment or a debate to which an author is responding, and “Responses” in which later authors respond to one or more texts from earlier works.
0205753736 / 9780205753734 Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1A and 1B
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0205655300 / 9780205655304 Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1A, The: The Middle Ages
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Synopsis
Key Benefit: The Fourth Edition builds upon the strengths of previous editions with its sustained attention to the context in which the literature was produced and its broadened scope of literature that includes the full cultural diversity of the British Isles. Key Topics: Includes canonical authors and newly visible authors. Extensive selections from previously underrepresented female writers are fully integrated. New “Responses” readings group works that were based on earlier writings to link works across time and place. “Perspectives” readings are broad groupings that illuminate underlying issues in a variety of the major works of a period. New to Volume 1A is the inclusion of new Penguin Classics translations of Beowulf by Michael Alexander and Sir Gawain and theGreen Knightby Brian Stone and the major classic work The Táin. Market: For anyone wanting a fresh approach to the study and enjoyment of British literature.
Synopsis
The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues its tradition of presenting works in the historical context in which they were written. This fresh approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented female authors,
Perspectives
sectionsthatshed light on the period as a wholeand link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme, And Its Time clusters that illuminate a specific cultural moment or a debate to which an author is responding, and Responses in which later authors respond to one or more texts from earlier works. New to Volume 1A is the inclusion of new Penguin Classics translations of
Beowulf by Michael Alexander and
Sir Gawain and theGreen Knight by Brian Stone and the major classic work
The Tain. "
Synopsis
Key Benefit: The Fourth Edition builds upon the strengths of previous editions with its sustained attention to the context in which the literature was produced and its broadened scope of literature that includes the full cultural diversity of the British Isles.
Key Topics: Includes canonical authors and newly visible authors. Extensive selections from previously underrepresented female writers are fully integrated. New "Responses" readings group works that were based on earlier writings to link works across time and place. "Perspectives" readings are broad groupings that illuminate underlying issues in a variety of the major works of a period. New to Volume 1A is the inclusion of new Penguin Classics translations of
Beowulf by Michael Alexander and
Sir Gawain and theGreen Knightby Brian Stone and the major classic work
The T in. Market For anyone wanting a fresh approach to the study and enjoyment of British literature.
Synopsis
The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues its tradition of presenting works in the historical context in which they were written. This fresh approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented female authors, “Perspectives” sectionsthatshed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme, “And Its Time” clusters that illuminate a specific cultural moment or a debate to which an author is responding, and “Responses” in which later authors respond to one or more texts from earlier works.
About the Author
David Damrosch is Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2009). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature, 2/e (2009) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009).
Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor and Chair, Department of English, at Pomona College, and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is the author of The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism and Is Rock Dead?, and the editor of Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism; Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading; Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics; the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners; and The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, and co-general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature.
Christopher Baswell isA. W. Olin Chair of English at Barnard College, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His interests include classical literature and culture, medieval literature and culture, and contemporary poetry. He is author of Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the "Aeneid" from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer, which won the 1998 Beatrice White Prize of the English Association. He has held fellowships from the NEH, the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Anne Howland Schotter is Professor and Chair of English and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Wagner College. She is the co-editor of Ineffability: Naming the Unnamable from Dante to Beckett and author of articles on Middle English poetry, Dante, and Medieval Latin poetry. Her current interests include the medieval reception of classical literature, particularly the work of Ovid. She has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson and Andrew W. Mellon foundations.
Table of Contents
*** denotes selection is new to this edition.
THE MIDDLE AGES
Before the Norman Conquest
BEOWULF***
Response
John Gardner: from Grendel
THE TÁIN***
EARLY IRISH VERSE
To Crinog
Pangur the Cat
Writing in the Wood
The Viking Terror
The Old Woman of Beare
Findabair Remembers Fróech
A Grave Marked with Ogam
from The Voyage of Máel Dúin
JUDITH
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
PERSPECTIVES: ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTERS
Bede
from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Bishop asser
from The Life of King Alfred
King alfred
Preface to Saint Gregory’s Pastoral Care
Ohthere’s journeys
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Stamford Bridge and Hastings
TALIESIN
Urien Yrechwydd
The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain
The War-Band’s Return
Lament for Owain Son of Urien
THE WANDERER
WULF AND EADWACER AND THE WIFE’S LAMENT
RIDDLES
Three Anglo-Latin Riddles by Aldhelm
Five Old English Riddles
After the Norman Conquest
PERSPECTIVES: ARTHURIAN MYTH IN THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN
Geoffrey of Monmouth
from History of the Kings of Britain
Gerald of Wales
from The Instruction of Princes
Edward I
Letter sent to the Papal Court of Rome
Response
A Report to Edward I
Arthurian Romance
MARIE DE FRANCE
Lais
Prologue
Lanval
Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle)
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT***
SIR THOMAS MALORY
Morte Darthur
from Caxton’s Prologue
The Miracle of Galahad
The Poisoned Apple
The Day of Destiny
Responses
Marion Zimmer Bradley: from The Mists of Avalon
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin: scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue (Middle English and modern translation)
The Miller’s Tale
The Introduction
The Tale
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
The Prologue
The Tale
The Pardoner’s Prologue
The Pardoner’s Tale
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
The Parson’s Tale
The Introduction
[The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery]
Chaucer’s Retraction
To His Scribe Adam
Complaint to His Purse
WILLIAM LANGLAND
Piers Plowman
Prologue
Passus 2
from Passus 6
Passus 8
Passus 20
“Piers Plowman” and Its Time
The Rising of 1381
from The Anonimalle Chronicle [Wat Tyler’s Demands to Richard II, and His Death]
Three Poems on the Rising of 1381: John Ball’s First Letter • John Ball’s Second Letter • The Course of Revolt
John Gower: from The Voice of One Crying
Mystical Writings
JULIAN OF NORWICH
A Book of Showings
[Three Graces. Illness. The First Revelation]
[Laughing at the Devil]
[Christ Draws Julian in through His Wound]
[The Necessity of Sin, and of Hating Sin]
[God as Father, Mother, Husband]
[The Soul as Christ’s Citadel]
[The Meaning of the Visions Is Love]
Companion Readings
Richard Rolle: from The Fire of Love
from The Cloud of Unknowing
Response
Rebecca Jackson: The Dream of Washing Quilts
Medieval Biblical Drama
THE SECOND PLAY OF THE SHEPHERDS
THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION
MARGERY KEMPE
The Book of Margery Kempe
The Preface
[Early Life and Temptations, Revelation, Desire for Foreign Pilgrimage]
[Meeting with Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Canterbury]
[Visit with Julian of Norwich]
[Pilgrimage to Jerusalem]
[Arrest by Duke of Bedford’s Men; Meeting with Archbishop of York]
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
The Cuckoo Song (“Sumer is icumen in”)
Spring (“Lenten is come with love to toune”)
Alisoun (“Bitwene Mersh and Averil”)
I Have a Noble Cock
My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond
Fowls in the Frith
Abuse of Women (“In every place ye may well see”)
The Irish Dancer (“Gode sire, pray ich thee”)
A Forsaken Maiden’s Lament (“I lovede a child of this cuntree”)
The Wily Clerk (“This enther day I mete a clerke”)
Jolly Jankin (“As I went on YoI Day in our procession”)
Adam Lay Ibounden
I Sing of a Maiden
In Praise of Mary (“Edi be thu, Hevene Quene”)
Mary Is with Child (“Under a tree”)
Sweet Jesus, King of Bliss
Now Goeth Sun under Wood
Jesus, My Sweet Lover (“Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete”)
Contempt of the World (“Where beth they biforen us weren?”)
DAFYDD AP GWILYM
Aubade
One Saving Place
Tale of a Wayside Inn
The Winter
The Ruin
Middle Scots Poets
WILLIAM DUNBAR
Lament for the Makars
Done Is a Battell
In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht
ROBERT HENRYSON
Robene and Makyne
Late Medieval Allegory
CHARLES D’ORLEANS
Ballade 26
Ballade 61
Roundel 94
MANKIND
(acting edition by Peter Meredith)
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN
from Book of the City of Ladies
(trans. by Earl Jeffrey Richards)