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Tables of Contents for The Longman Anthology of British Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xvii
Political and Religious Orders
xxi
Money, Weights, and Measures
xxvii
Bibliography
xxix
The Middle Ages Before the Norman Conquest
2
168
Beowulf
27
68
The Tain Bo Cuailnge
95
19
The Pillow Talk
97
6
The Tain Begins
103
1
The Last Battle
104
10
Judith
114
6
The Dream of the Rood
120
4
Perspectives: Ethnic and Religious Encounters
124
15
Bede
126
5
from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People
126
5
Bishop Asser
131
3
from The Life of King Alfred
132
2
King Alfred
134
1
Preface to Saint Gregory's Pastoral Care
134
1
Ohthere's Journeys
135
3
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
138
1
Stamford Bridge and Hastings
138
1
Taliesin
139
4
Urien Yrechwydd
140
1
The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain
141
1
The War-Band's Return
141
2
Lament for Owain Son of Urien
143
1
The Wanderer
143
3
Wulf and Eadwacer and The Wife's Lament
146
3
Riddles
149
3
Three Anglo-Latin Riddles Aldhelm
150
1
Five Old English Riddles
150
2
After the Norman Conquest
Perspectives: Arthurian Myth in the History of Britain
152
18
Geoffrey of Monmouth
153
12
from History of the Kings of Britain
155
10
Gerald of Wales
165
2
from The Instruction of Princes
165
2
Edward I
167
3
Letter sent to the Papal Court
167
2
Companion Reading A Report to Edward I
169
1
Arthurian Romance
170
267
Marie De France
170
15
Lais
171
1
Prologue
171
1
Lanval
172
13
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
185
57
Sir Thomas Malory
242
30
Morte Darthur
243
1
from Caxton's Prologue
243
2
The Miracle of Galahad
245
7
The Poisoned Apple
252
10
The Day of Destiny
262
10
Geoffrey Chaucer
272
122
The Parliament of Fowls
276
17
The Canterbury Tales
293
1
The General Prologue
293
20
The Miller's Tale
313
16
The Introduction
314
1
The Tale
315
14
The Wife of Bath's Prologue
329
19
The Wife of Bath's Tale
348
9
The Pardoner's Prologue
357
4
The Pardoner's Tale
361
11
The Nun's Priest's Tale
372
15
The Parson's Tale
387
5
The Introduction
388
1
from The Tale
389
1
The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery
390
2
Chaucer's Retraction
392
1
To His Scribe Adam
392
1
Complaint to His Purse
393
1
William Langland
394
43
Piers Plowman
396
41
Prologue
396
5
Passus 2
401
5
Passus 6
406
8
Passus 18
414
11
Piers Plowman in Context: The Rising of 1381
425
1
from The Anonimalle Chronicle [Wat Tyler's Demands to Richard II, and His Death]
426
5
Three Poems on the Rising of 1381 John Ball's First Letter
431
1
John Ball's Second Letter
431
1
The Course of Revolt
432
2
John Gower from The Voice of One Crying
434
3
Mystical Writings
437
121
Richard Rolle
438
7
The Fire of Love
438
7
Prologue
438
2
No one attains supreme devotion quickly
440
1
About not judging another, but rather giving thanks
441
1
How and when he was urged to the solitary life
442
3
from The Cloud of Unknowing
445
2
Julian of Norwich
447
14
A Book of Showings
448
13
[Three Graces.Illness. The First Relevation]
448
4
[Christ Draws Julian in Through His Wound]
452
1
[The Necessity of Sin, and of Hating Sin]
453
2
[God as Father, Mother, Husband]
455
5
[The Meaning of the Visions Is Love]
460
1
The Second Play of the Shepherds
461
21
Literature of Travel: Marvels and Pilgrimage
481
1
The Voyage of Saint Brendan
482
10
from The Voyage of Saint Brendan
483
9
Sir John Mandeville
492
8
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
493
7
Of the royal estate of Prester John
493
3
Of the head of the devil in the Vale Perilous
496
2
Of the mountains of gold, which the ants watch over
498
2
Margery Kempe
500
20
The Book of Margery Kempe
502
18
The Preface
502
1
[Life and Temptations, Revelation, Desire for Foreign Pilgrimage]
502
10
[Visit with Julian of Norwich]
512
2
[Pilgrimage to Jerusalem]
514
4
[Mystic Marriage with God]
518
2
Middle English Lyrics
520
16
The Cuckoo Song (``Sumer is icumen in'')
522
1
Spring (``Lenten is come with love to toune'')
523
1
Alisoun (``Bitwene Mersh and Averil'')
523
2
I Have a Noble Cock
525
1
My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond
525
1
Fowles in the Frith
525
1
Abuse of Women (``In every place ye may well see'')
525
2
The Irish Dancer (``Gode sire pray ich thee'')
527
1
A Forsaken Maiden's Lament (``I lovede a child of this cuntree'')
527
1
The Wily Clerk (``This enther day I mete a clerke'')
528
1
Jolly Jankin (``As I went on Yol Day in our procession'')
528
2
Adam Lay Ibounden
530
1
I Sing of a Maiden
530
1
In Praise of Mary (``Edi be thu, Hevene Quene'')
531
1
Mary Is with Child (``Under a tree'')
532
1
Sweet Jesus, King of Bliss
533
1
Now Goeth Sun under Wood
534
1
Jesus, My Sweet Lover (``Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete'')
535
1
Contempt of the World (``Where beth they biforen us weren'')
535
1
The Tale of Taliesin
536
13
Dafydd Ap Gwilym
549
9
Aubade
551
1
One Saving Place
552
1
The Girls of Llanbadarn
553
1
Tale of a Wayside Inn
554
2
The Hateful Husband
556
1
The Winter
557
1
The Ruin
558
1
Middle Scots Poets
558
11
William Dunbar
559
5
Lament for the Makars
559
3
Done Is a Battell
562
1
In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht
563
1
Robert Henryson
564
5
Robene and Makyne
565
4
Glossary of Literary and Cultural Terms
569
24
Credits
593
2
Index
595