Professor Kane is widely regarded as the leading middle English textual and literary scholar of our time and this collection of his essays will be widely welcomed. They focus largely upon the texts of Chaucer and Langland and demonstrate in an exemplary way how critical issues can arise from meticulous textual study.

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Product Description: This book gives a linguistic overview of the first eight centuries of English poetry - years which produced such key works as Beowulf, Lazoman's Brut and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It begins with chapters on the social and literary context, before turning in more detail to subjects such as poetic diction, rhymed and alliterative verse, borrowed words, recurrent phrases, rhetoric and linguistic variety...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Julia Boffey investigates the original context of over six hundred 15th- and early 16th-century English courtly lyrics.