The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser - Info and Reading Options

"The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser" Table Of Contents:

• 1- The significance of the pentangle symbolism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• 2- The action of the hunting and bedroom scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• 3- The meaning of kind wit, conscience and reason in the first vision of Piers Plowman
• 4- Langland's conception of favel, guile, liar and false in the first vision of Piers Plowman
• 5- The status and meaning of meed in the first vision of Piers Plowman
• 6- The universality of the portraits in the general prologue to the Canterbury tales
• 7- Rhetorical perspectives in the general prologue to the Ganterbury tales
• 8- A defence of Dorigen's complaint
• 9- The self-revealing tendencies of Chaucer's pardoner
• 10- Holiness as the first of Spenser's Aristotelian moral virtues
• 11- The idea of temperance in the second book of The faerie queene
• 12- The meaning of Spenser's chastity as the fairest of virtues.

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