The English Dance of Death from the Designs of Thomas Rowlandson
by R Ackermann
English Public Opinion After the Restoration (1902)
by Gerald B Hurst
Passages from the English note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne
by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
A new volume of the works of the Gawain poet, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars.This volume brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous for the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in their original Middle English. In one of the great tales of medieval literature, Gawain, the noblest knight of King Arthur's court, must keep a deadly bargain with a monstrous knight and resist the advances of his host's beautiful wife. Th...
Method of Philological Study of the English Language (1886)
by Francis a March
The English Works of Roger Ascham, Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth
by Roger Ascham
Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)
by Thorlac Turville-Petre
The characteristic alliterative poem of the 14th and 15th centuries tells a story of incident and adventure: it is pre-eminently the poetry of narrative. Yet it is also, more than any other kind of medieval verse, remarkable for passages of vivid description, taking advantage of the extraordinary rich verbal resources of the alliterative poets and the characteristic strengths of the alliterative line. Memorable examples are the green chapel in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the storm at sea in...
The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse (Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies)
by Roberta Frank
In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet's workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets. This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into conversation, revealing their membership in a single community of taste, a traditional stylistic ecology that did serious political and historical work. Each chapter seeks the codes of a now-extinct verse technique. The first explores the underlying archite...
Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters
by Thomson Willing
The Country Dance Book, Part 3
by Cecil James Sharp and George Butterworth
English Record of the Whaley Family and Its Branches in America (1901)
by Samuel Whaley
Exodus (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) (Old English Library)
Exodus is an exceptional Old English poem, written at a time when in the age of Bede Northern England held the intellectual leadership of Europe. It offers a vernacular gateway to the study of early medieval christian poetry. Focussing in dramatic fashion on the crossing of the Red Sea enabling the Israelites to escape captivity in Egypt the poem is stylistically outstanding, showing a use of metaphor and fusion of disparate concepts (such as abstract and concrete, literal and allegorical) unpar...
This title was first published in 2002: The purpose of "Chaucer's Church" is to provide clear, concise and reliable explanations of every term Chaucer uses that has a religious, liturgical, or ecclesiastical meaning. It uses a dictionary format, arranged according to Chaucer's spellings, to make information readily accessible for students, teachers, critics, and the general reader. The shorter entries present brief definitions which are more lively and illuminating than those in standard diction...
'Spring was already in the air, in the town; there was no rain but there was still less sun - one wondered what had become of it, on this side of the world - and the grey mildness, shading away into black at any pretext, appeared in itself a promise.' Henry James left America for England in 1876 and remained in his adopted country for the next three decades. Arriving in Liverpool, he made his way first to London, the 'dreadful, delightful city', which he would come to both love and hate. James r...
