English Poetry Before Chaucer

by Michael James Swanton

Book Overview

A new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work, intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students of English. This is a stimulating introduction to the poetry composed in an age that witnessed fundamental cultural developments: the emergence of
the English from among the warring tribes of Europe, their conversion to Christianity, the development of feudalism and the chivalric myth, the military adventure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859896331
• ISBN13: 9780859896337
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"