Gathers poems about secrets, ponds, winter, snow, playgrounds, school, windows, storms, a lighthouse, fables, animals, and vampires

Product Description: Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Prone to violence, including rape, assault, and extortion, the poet was employed first at domestic personal service and subsequently at policework of various sorts, protecting the established order during a period of massive social upset...read more

Product Description: This book is an edition of eight late-fourteenth- and early-fifteenth-century Latin texts that chronicle and/or comment upon events that led, in 1399, to the deposition of King Richard II.

Product Description: The poem that Richard Maidstone wrote on the metropolitan crisis of 1392 reports information about the royal entry that concluded the crisis in greater detail than any other source. The poem is not primarily a report, however; like Maidstone's other writings, it is above all an ideologically driven literary intervention, produced at a particular moment, addressing a particular political circumstance...read more

Book by Carlson, David R.