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The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes.
This volume occupies both a foundational and a revolutionary place. Its opening date--1100--marks the re-emergence of a vernacular poetic record in English after the political and cultural disruption of the Norman Conquest. By its end date--1400--English poetry had become an established, if still evolving, literary tradition. The period between these dates sees major innovations and developments in language, topics, poetic forms, and means of expression. Middle English poetry reflects the influence of multiple contexts--history, social institutions, manuscript production, old and new models of versification, medieval poetic theory, and the other literary languages of England. It thus emphasizes the aesthetic, imaginative treatment of new and received materials by medieval writers and the formal craft required for their verse. Individual chapters treat the representation of national history and mythology, contemporary issues, and the shared doctrine and learning provided by sacred and secular sources, including the Bible. Throughout the period, lyric and romance figure prominently as genres and poetic modes, while some works hover enticingly on the boundary of genre and discursive forms. The volume ends with chapters on the major writers of the late fourteenth-century (Langland, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, and Gower) and with a look forward to the reception of something like a national literary tradition in fifteenth-century literary culture.
Contents
1: Helen Cooper and Robert R. Edwards: Introduction
Part I. Contexts
2: Laura Ashe: Historical and Political Changes: The Norman Conquest to the Hundred Years' War
3: Ralph Hanna: Poetic Sites
4: Simon Horobin: Manuscripts: The Textual Record of Middle English Poetry
Part II. Literary Culture
5: Richard Dance: The Poetic Field, I: Old and Middle English Language and Poetry
6: Siân Echard: The Poetic Field, II: Anglo-Latin
7: Keith Busby: The Poetic Field, III: Anglo-French
8: Victoria Flood: The Poetic Field, IV: Welsh
9: Ad Putter: Verse Forms
10: Andrew Galloway: Poetic and Literary Theory
Part III. 'Matere'
11: Caroline D. Eckhardt: Poetry and National History
12: Craig E. Bertolet: Poetry in its Age: Satire and Complaint
13: Stephen M. Yeager: Doctrine and Learning
14: Jacqueline Tasioulas: Poetry and the Bible
15: Karen A. Winstead: Saints' Lives and Sacred Biography
Part IV. Genre Poetics
16: Christopher Cannon: Narrative on the Margins: Tales and Fabliaux
17: Denis Renevey: Religious and Didactic Lyrics
18: Susanna Fein: Secular Lyrics
19: Rhiannon Purdie: Non-Cycle Romances of Love
20: Wolfram R. Keller: Romances of the Ancient World
21: Elizabeth Archibald: The Matter of Britain
22: Marcel Elias: Crusade Romances and the Matter of France
23: Andrew James Johnston: The 'Matter of England'
Part V. The Ricardian Poets
24: Nicolette Zeeman: Piers Plowman
25: Helen Cooper: The Gawain-Poet
26: David Lawton: Chaucer's Courtly Poetry
27: Barry Windeatt: The Canterbury Tales
28: R. F. Yeager: John Gower
29: Julia Boffey: The Reception of the Middle English Poetic Tradition
