Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1 : Middle Ages

by Abrams, M. H.; Greenblatt, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780393975659
• ISBN10: 0393975657
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Collects novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, ballads, and sermons from British authors.

Table of Contents

Permissions Acknowledgments	ix
Preface to the Seventh Edition	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxvii
The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)	1	(22)
Introduction	1	(20)
Anglo-Saxon England	3	(4)
Anglo-Norman England	7	(2)
Middle English Literature in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries	9	(5)
Medieval English	14	(5)
Old and Middle English Prosody	19	(2)
Timeline	21	(2)
ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND	23	(87)
Bede (ca. 673-735) and Cædmon's Hymn	23	(3)
An Ecclesiastical History of the English People	24	(2)
[The Story of Cæaedmon]	24	(2)
The Dream of the Rood	26	(3)
Beowulf	29	(70)
Seamus Heaney
The Wanderer	99	(3)
The Wife's Lament	102	(1)
The Battle of Maldon	103	(7)
ANGLO-NORMAN ENGLAND	110	(5)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	110	(5)
[Obituary for William the Conqueror]	110	(3)
[Henry of Poitou Becomes Abbot of Peterborough]	113	(1)
[The reign of King Stephen]	114	(1)
LEGENDARY HISTORIES OF BRITAIN	115	(27)
Geoffrey of Monmouth	115	(3)
The History of the Kings of Britain	116	(2)
[The Story of Brutus and Diana's Prophecy]	116	(2)
Wace	118	(4)
Le Roman de Brut	118	(4)
[The Roman Challenge]	118	(4)
Layamon	122	(2)
Brut	122	(2)
[Arthur's Dream]	122	(2)
The Myth of Arthur's Return	124	(2)
Geoffrey of Monmouth: From History of the Kings of Britain	125	(1)
Wace's: From Roman de Brut	125	(1)
Layamon: From Brut	125	(1)
Marie De France	126	(16)
Lanval	127	(13)
Fables	140	(1)
The Wolf and the Lamb	140	(1)
The Wolf and the Sow	141	(1)
CELTIC CONTEXTS	142	(14)
Exile of the Sons of Uisliu	142	(8)
Lludd and Lleuelys	150	(3)
Ancrene Riwle (Rule for Anchoresses)	153	(3)
[The Parable of the Christ-Knight]	154	(2)
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES	156
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1375-1400)	156	(54)
Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400)	210	(107)
The Canterbury Tales	213	(2)
The General Prologue	215	(20)
The Miller's Prologue and Tale	235	(17)
The Prologue	236	(1)
The Tale	237	(15)
The Man of Law's Epilogue	252	(1)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale	253	(28)
The Prologue	253	(19)
The Tale	272	(9)
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale	281	(15)
The Introduction	281	(1)
The Prologue	282	(3)
The Tale	285	(10)
The Epilogue	295	(1)
The Nun's Priest's Tale	296	(14)
[Close of Canterbury Tales]	310	(1)
The Parson's Tale	311	(2)
The Introduction	311	(2)
Chaucer's Retraction	313	(1)
Lyrics and Occasional Verse	313	(1)
Troilus's Song	314	(1)
Truth	315	(1)
To His Scribe Adam	315	(1)
Complaint to His Purse	316	(1)
William Langland (ca. 1330-1387)	317	(32)
The Vision of Piers Plowman	319	(30)
The Prologue	319	(1)
[The Field of Folk]	319	(3)
Passus 5	322	(1)
[The Confession of Envy]	322	(1)
[The Confession of Gluttony]	323	(2)
[Piers Plowman Shows the Way to Saint Truth]	325	(3)
Passus 6	328	(1)
[The Plowing of Piers's Half-Acre]	328	(8)
Passus 18	336	(1)
[The Harrowing of Hell]	336	(10)
The C-Text	346	(1)
[The Dreamer Meets Conscience and Reason]	346	(3)
Middle English Lyrics	349	(6)
The Cuckoo Song	350	(1)
Alison	351	(1)
My Lief Is Faren in Londe	352	(1)
Western Wind	352	(1)
I Am of Ireland	352	(1)
What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight	352	(1)
Ye That Pasen by the Weye	353	(1)
Sunset on Calvary	353	(1)
I Sing of a Maiden	353	(1)
Adam Lay Bound	354	(1)
The Corpus Christi Carol	354	(1)
Julian of Norwich (1342-ca. 1416)	355	(11)
A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich	356	(5)
[The First Revelation]	356	(1)
Chapter 3	356	(1)
Chapter 4	357	(1)
Chapter 5	358	(1)
From Chapter 7	359	(1)
Chapter 27	360	(1)
[Jesus as Mother]	361	(5)
From Chapter 58	361	(1)
From Chapter 59	362	(1)
Chapter 60	363	(1)
Chapter 61	364	(2)
[Conclusion]	366	(1)
Chapter 86	366	(1)
Margery Kempe (ca. 1373-1438)	366	(13)
The Book of Margery Kempe	367	(12)
[The Birth of Her First Child and Her First Vision]	367	(2)
[Her Pride and Attempts to Start a Business]	369	(1)
[Margery and Her Husband Reach a Settlement]	370	(1)
[A Visit with Julian of Norwich]	371	(1)
[Pilgrimage to Jerusalem]	372	(2)
[Examination before the Archbishop]	374	(3)
[Margery Nurses Her Husband in His Old Age]	377	(2)
Mystery Plays	379	(40)
The Chester Play of Noah's Flood	380	(11)
The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play	391	(28)
Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1405-1471)	419	(20)
Morte Darthur	421	(18)
[The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere]	421	(5)
[War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot]	426	(4)
[The Death of Arthur]	430	(5)
[The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere]	435	(4)
Robert Henryson (ca. 1425-ca. 1500)	439	(6)
The Cock and the Fox	439	(6)
Everyman (after 1485)	445
POEMS IN PROCESS	A-1
John Milton	A-2
Lycidas	A-2
Alexander Pope	A-4
The Rape of the Lock	A-4
An Essay on Man	A-5
Samuel Johnson	A-6
The Vanity of Human Wishes	A-7
Thomas Gray	A-8
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	A-8
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES	A-11
Suggested General Readings	A-11
The Middle Ages	A-13
``The Persistence of English''	A-19
Geoffrey Nunberg
GEOGRAPHIC NOMENCLATURE	A-35
BRITISH MONEY	A-36
THE BRITISH BARONAGE	A-39
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain	A-41
RELIGIONS IN ENGLAND	A-44
POETIC FORMS AND LITERARY TERMINOLOGY	A-46
ILLUSTRATION
The Universe According to Ptolemy	A-62
Index	A-65