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Love Visions
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableSpanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of... more...
The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the Invention of English Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the Invention of English Literature revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern "literary system" dominant since 1983 by adapting methods entailed by Jerome J. McGann's idea that literary works emerge through a series of semiotic events. Davis analyzes Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella... more...
The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls
Victoria University Press 2010; US$ 8.00Taking a dark turn, this important New Zealand poet explores the legacy of a heretic who was burned at the stake in 1310 for writing a thesis called Simple Annihilated Souls. Answering back, modern souls offer their own lamentations in poems such as "The Tired Atheist" and "Driving on the Bypass." more...
Thomas Matthews's Welsh Records in Paris
University of Wales Press 2010; US$ 75.00This book is the first republication since 1910 of this important work by Thomas Matthews. It contains a series of documents and background information which provide a fascinating glimpse into selected aspects of Wales rich medieval history. more...
Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Rewriting
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 109.99Chris Stamatakis reappraises Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.1504-1542) as a poetic innovator from the literary avant-garde of early Tudor England. He discusses Wyatt's reflections on the writing process, and his awareness of how words can be turned in new directions - that is, rewritten, amended, transformed, manipulated, even performed - over the course... more...
Pearl
Carcanet 2011; US$ 14.51In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: ?my pearl, my girl?. One of the great treasures of the British Library, the fourteenth-century poem Pearl is a work of poetic brilliance. Its account of loss and consolation retains its force across six centuries. Jane Draycott in her new translation... more...
Saints and Scholars
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 99.00Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, and their subsequent appropriations, unite the essays collected here. They offer fresh and exciting perspectives on a variety of issues, from gender to religion and the afterlives of Old English texts, from reconsiderations of neglected works to reflections on the place of Anglo-Saxon in the classroom. As is appropriate,... more...
Pearl
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2011; US$ 15.95One of the great treasures of the British Library, this 14th-century poem is a work of brilliance. This new translation remakes the imaginative intensity of the original, in which a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river in a dream landscape radiant with jewels. An account of loss and consolation that retains its force across... more...
Performance and the Middle English Romance
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 90.00Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes , a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here, the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience... more...
Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser
Boydell & Brewer 2006; US$ 90.00An examination of the way in which the material world is depicted in The Faerie Queene. more...









