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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 explores the developing range of English verse in the century after the death of Chaucer in 1400, years that saw both change and consolidation in traditions of poetic writing in English in the regions of Britain. Chaucer himself was an important shaping presence in the poetry of this period, providing a stimulus to imitation and to creative expansion of the modes he had favoured. In addition to assessing his role, this volume considers a range of literary factors significant to the poetry of the century, including verse forms, literary language, translation, and the idea of the author. It also signals features of the century's history that were important for the production of English verse: responses to wars at home and abroad, dynastic uncertainty, and movements towards religious reform, as well as technological innovations such as the introduction of printing, which brought influential changes to the transmission and reception of verse writing. The volume is shaped to include chapters on the contexts and forms of poetry in English, on the important genres of verse produced in the period, on some of the fifteenth-century's major writers (Lydgate, Hoccleve, Dunbar, and Henryson), and a consideration of the influence of the verse of this century on what was to follow.
Contents
1: Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards: Introduction
Part I. Contexts
2: David Rundle: Contexts of English Poetry 1400-1500
3: James Simpson: Literary Traditions: Continuity and Change
4: Marco Nievergelt: Translation into English
5: Jenni Nuttall: Literary Language
6: Eric Weiskott: Verse Forms and Prosody
7: Robert Meyer-Lee: Authorship and the Production of Poetry
Part II. Transmission
8: Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards: Poetic Manuscripts
9: Siân Echard: Poetry in Print
10: Julia Boffey: Verse outside Books
Part III. Topics and Genres
11: Takami Matsuda: Biblical Paraphrase and Poems of Religious Instruction
12: Cynthia Turner Camp: Saints' Lives and Miracles of the Virgin
13: Christiania Whitehead: Religious Lyrics and Carols
14: Tamara Atkin: The Poetry of Religious and Moral Drama
15: A. S. G. Edwards: Science and Information
16: Matthew Giancarlo: Conduct Poetry
17: Rory G. Critten: Love Visions and Love Poetry
18: Andrew Galloway: Chronicle and History
19: Venetia Bridges: Fictions of Antiquity
20: Aisling Byrne: Fictions of Britain
21: Phillipa Hardman: Fictions of Christendom and other late Romances
22: Ben Parsons: Popular Tales
23: Helen Phillips: Occasional Poetry, Popular Poetry, and the Robin Hood Tradition
Part IV. Poets
24: Robert R. Edwards: John Lydgate
25: Sebastian Langdell: Thomas Hoccleve
26: Joanna Martin: Robert Henryson
27: Pamela King: William Dunbar
28: Jane Griffiths: Fifteenth-Century Transitions
