Dual text on facing pages, now revised and updated. Critically acclaimed translation now in its twenty fifth year. Extensive notes, glossary and introduction .

Product Description: This volume offers the complete text of a poem which, although an acknowledged masterpiece of medieval literature, makes abnormal demands upon the reader by reason of its subtle exploitation both of a difficult dialect of Middle English and of the special idiom of alliterative verse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

From the Introduction by Douglas Brooks-Davies: Spenser's Faerie Queene stands as one of the great humanistic landmarks in the English poetic renaissance. Its style is at once eloquent and simple, and yet through it we encounter all the excitement and complexity of the late Elizabethan period. Spenser saw himself as Elizabeth I's epic poet, writing of his queen's imperial and religious supremacy, aware that earthly things are constantly subject to decay and corruption but that the Elizabethan court could be an image of an ideal, other-worldly existence. . . .

Product Description: Scholars and students working on the early courtly and chivalric literature of medieval Europe will have often felt the need for contemporary theoretical material with which to illustrate their arguments about courtesy and chivalry in romances, etc...read more

Product Description: Scholars and students working on the early courtly and chivalric literature of medieval Europe will have often felt the need for contemporary theoretical material with which to illustrate their arguments about courtesy and chivalry in romances, etc...read more

A new critical edition!!!

An anonymous 11th century narrative poem from Germany of a young man in search of a fortune. Useful for students of medieval Latin epic.For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology, Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar. We also feature a line of contemporary eastern European and WWII books. Some of the areas we publish in include: Selections From The Aeneid Latin Grammar & Pronunciation Greek Grammar & Pronunciation Texts Supporting Wheelock's Latin Classical author workbooks: Vergil, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, Cicero Vocabulary Cards For AP Selections: Vergil, Ovid, Catullus, Horace Greek Mythology Greek Lexicon Slovak Culture And History

Product Description: Makes a charming minor Middle English poem easily available to students and general readers with an interest in medieval literature and culture. Contains a concise introduction with background material on the poem and a discussion of the problems of the classification of romance...read more

Product Description: As the earliest Arthurian verse-novel in the German language, Hartmann von Aue's Erec was highly influential, not only on the many Arthurian works that followed, but also on courtly narrative verse in general. However, his tale is of more than antiquarian interest...read more

Product Description: As the earliest Arthurian verse-novel in the German language, Hartmann von Aue's Erec was highly influential, not only on the many Arthurian works that followed, but also on courtly narrative verse in general. However, his tale is of more than antiquarian interest...read more

The scholar-fantacist offers faithful translations of the three classics of Medieval English verse

Product Description: Some of Swinburne's most important poetry recreates the Arthurian legends from a `modern' perspective. Deeply influenced by Wagner and the German romantics, he reacted against the Tennysonian orthodoxy; `Tristram of Lyonesse' in particular is a sustained celebration of the triumph of love over conventional morality...read more

This celebrated fourteenth-century English romance has been frequently edited and translated, but rarely have edition and translation been presented together. This new edition with facing page translation makes the poem's difficult Middle English dialect accessible in a modern spelling format and offers a verse translation in a flexible alliterative line that follows closely the syntax and meter of the original.

Product Description: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.