Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1A, The

The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues its tradition of presenting works in the historical context in which they were written. This fresh approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented female authors, "Perspectives" sectionsthatshed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme, "And Its Time" clusters that illuminate a specific cultural moment or a debate to which an author is responding, and "Responses" in which later authors respond to one or more texts from earlier works. New to Volume 1A is the inclusion of new Penguin Classics translations of "Beowulf "by Michael Alexander and "Sir Gawain and theGreen Knight "by Brian Stone and the major classic work "The Tain. "

List of contents

*** denotes selection is new to this edition.
 
THE MIDDLE AGES                                             
                                Before the Norman Conquest                               
 
BEOWULF***                                                                                        
Response
John Gardner: from Grendel  
 
THE TÁIN***
 
EARLY IRISH VERSE                                                                            
To Crinog  
Pangur the Cat  
Writing in the Wood  
The Viking Terror  
The Old Woman of Beare  
Findabair Remembers Fróech  
A Grave Marked with Ogam  
from The Voyage of Máel Dúin  
 
JUDITH                                                                                                   
 
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD                                                                 
 
PERSPECTIVES: ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTERS
Bede  
from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People  
Bishop asser  
from The Life of King Alfred  
King alfred  
Preface to Saint Gregory's Pastoral Care  
Ohthere's journeys  
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle  
Stamford Bridge and Hastings  
 
TALIESIN                                                                                               
Urien Yrechwydd  
The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain  
The War-Band's Return  
Lament for Owain Son of Urien  
  
THE WANDERER                                                                                   
 
WULF AND EADWACER AND THE WIFE'S LAMENT                         
 
RIDDLES                                                                                                
Three Anglo-Latin Riddles by Aldhelm  
Five Old English Riddles  
 
                                 After the Norman Conquest                                
 
PERSPECTIVES: ARTHURIAN MYTH IN THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN
Geoffrey of Monmouth  
from History of the Kings of Britain  
Gerald of Wales  
from The Instruction of Princes  
Edward I  
Letter sent to the Papal Court of Rome  
Response
A Report to Edward I  
 
                                        Arthurian Romance                                       
 
MARIE DE FRANCE                                                                              
Lais  
Prologue  
Lanval  
        Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle)  
 
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT***                                     
 
SIR THOMAS MALORY                                                                        
Morte Darthur  
from Caxton's Prologue  
The Miracle of Galahad  
The Poisoned Apple  
The Day of Destiny  
Responses
Marion Zimmer Bradley: from The Mists of Avalon  
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin: scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail  
 
GEOFFREY CHAUCER                                                                          
The Canterbury Tales  
The General Prologue (Middle English and modern translation)  
The Miller's Tale  
The Introduction  
The Tale  
The Wife of Bath's Prologue  
The Wife of Bath's Tale  
The Prologue  
The Tale  
The Pardoner's Prologue  
The Pardoner's Tale  
The Nun's Priest's Tale  
The Parson's Tale  
The Introduction  
[The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery]  
Chaucer's Retraction  
To His Scribe Adam  
Complaint to His Purse  
 
WILLIAM LANGLAND                                                                          
Piers Plowman
Prologue  
Passus 2  
from Passus 6  
Passus 8  
Passus 20  
“Piers Plowman” and Its Time
The Rising of 1381  
from The Anonimalle Chronicle [Wat Tyler's Demands to Richard II, and His Death]  
Three Poems on the Rising of 1381: John Ball's First Letter  • John Ball's Second Letter  • The Course of Revolt  
John Gower: from The Voice of One Crying  
 
                                         Mystical Writings                                        
 
JULIAN OF NORWICH                                                                          
A Book of Showings  
[Three Graces. Illness. The First Revelation]  
[Laughing at the Devil]  
[Christ Draws Julian in through His Wound]  
[The Necessity of Sin, and of Hating Sin]  
[God as Father, Mother, Husband]  
[The Soul as Christ's Citadel]  
[The Meaning of the Visions Is Love]  
 Companion Readings
Richard Rolle: from The Fire of Love  
from The Cloud of Unknowing  
Response
Rebecca Jackson: The Dream of Washing Quilts  
 
                                   Medieval Biblical Drama                                  
 
THE SECOND PLAY OF THE SHEPHERDS                                          
 
THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION                                           
 
MARGERY KEMPE                                                                                
The Book of Margery Kempe  
The Preface  
[Early Life and Temptations, Revelation, Desire for Foreign Pilgrimage]  
[Meeting with Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Canterbury]  
[Visit with Julian of Norwich]  
[Pilgrimage to Jerusalem]  
[Arrest by Duke of Bedford's Men; Meeting with Archbishop of York]  
 
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS                                                                  
The Cuckoo Song (“Sumer is icumen in”)  
Spring (“Lenten is come with love to toune”)  
Alisoun (“Bitwene Mersh and Averil”)  
I Have a Noble Cock  
My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond  
Fowls in the Frith  
Abuse of Women (“In every place ye may well see”)  
The Irish Dancer (“Gode sire, pray ich thee”)  
A Forsaken Maiden's Lament (“I lovede a child of this cuntree”)  
The Wily Clerk (“This enther day I mete a clerke”)  
Jolly Jankin (“As I went on YoI Day in our procession”)  
Adam Lay Ibounden  
I Sing of a Maiden  
In Praise of Mary (“Edi be thu, Hevene Quene”)  
Mary Is with Child (“Under a tree”)  
Sweet Jesus, King of Bliss  
Now Goeth Sun under Wood  
Jesus, My Sweet Lover (“Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete”)  
Contempt of the World (“Where beth they biforen us weren?”)  
 
DAFYDD AP GWILYM                                                                          
Aubade  
One Saving Place  
Tale of a Wayside Inn  
The Winter  
The Ruin  
 
                                         Middle Scots Poets                                        
WILLIAM DUNBAR                                                                               
Lament for the Makars  
Done Is a Battell  
In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht  
 
ROBERT HENRYSON                                                                            
Robene and Makyne  
                                                        
                                        Late Medieval Allegory
CHARLES D'ORLEANS                                                                         
Ballade 26  
Ballade 61  
Roundel 94  
 
MANKIND                                                                                              
(acting edition by Peter Meredith)           
 
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN                                                                           
from Book of the City of Ladies  
(trans. by Earl Jeffrey Richards)
 

About the author

David Damrosch is Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2009). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature, 2/e (2009) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009).
Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor and Chair, Department of English, at Pomona College, and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is the author of The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism and Is Rock Dead?, and the editor of Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism; Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading; Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics; the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners; and The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, and co-general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature.
Christopher Baswell isA. W. Olin Chair of English at Barnard College, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His interests include classical literature and culture, medieval literature and culture, and contemporary poetry. He is author of Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the "Aeneid" from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer, which won the 1998 Beatrice White Prize of the English Association. He has held fellowships from the NEH, the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Anne Howland Schotter is Professor and Chair of English and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Wagner College. She is the co-editor of Ineffability: Naming the Unnamable from Dante to Beckett and author of articles on Middle English poetry, Dante, and Medieval Latin poetry. Her current interests include the medieval reception of classical literature, particularly the work of Ovid. She has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson and Andrew W. Mellon foundations.

Summary

The Longman Anthology of British Literatureis the most comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged text in the field, offering a rich selection of compelling British authors through the ages.
 
With its first edition, The Longman Anthology of British Literature created a new paradigm for anthologies. Responding to major shifts in literary studies over the past thirty years, it was the first collection to pay sustained attention to the contexts within which literature is produced, even as it broadened the scope of that literature to embrace the full cultural diversity of the British Isles. Within its pages, canonical authors mingle with newly visible writers; English accents are heard next to Anglo-Norman, Welsh, Gaelic, and Scottish ones; female and male voices are set in dialogue; literature from the British Isles is integrated with post-colonial writing; and major works are illuminated by clusters of shorter texts that bring literary, social, and historical issues vividly to life.
 
Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and 150 illustrations show both artistic and cultural developments from the medieval period to the present.
 
The Fourth Edition builds on the pioneering features of the previous three editions, expanding the strong core of frequently taught works while continuing to lead the way in responding to the shifting interests of the discipline.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Baswell, David Damrosch, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Anne Howland Schotter
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780205655304
• ISBN: 978-0-205-65530-4
• No. of pages: 656
• Series: Longman; Longman
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies