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Informationen zum Autor P J Keegan Klappentext Spanning seven centuries, this ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Zusammenfassung This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Penguin Book of English VersePreface 1300-1350 (Rawlinson Lyrics) Anonymous 'Ich am of Irlande' Anonymous 'Maiden in the morë lay' Anonymous 'Al night by the rosë, rosë' (Harley Lyrics) Anonymous 'Bitwenë March and Avëril' Anonymous 'Erthë tok of erthe' 1350-1400 (Grimestone Lyrics) Anonymous 'Gold and al this worldës wyn' Anonymous 'Gloria mundi est' Anonymous 'Love me broughte' Anonymous (The Dragon Speaks) Geoffrey Chaucer from The Parliament of Fowls (Catalogue of the Birds) (Roundel) Geoffrey Chaucer from The Boke of Troilus (Envoi) Anonymous 'When Adam dalf and Eve span' William Langland from The Vision of Piers Plowman (Prologue) (Gluttony in the Ale-house) Geoffrey Chaucer from The Canterbury Tales from The General Prologue 'Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote' from The General Prologue (The Prioress) from The Knight's Tale (The Temple of Mars) from The Knight's Tale (Saturn) from The Milleres Tale (Alysoun) from The Wife of Bath's Prologue 'My fourthe housbonde was a revelour' from The Pardoner's Tale 'Thise riotoures thre of whiche I telle' Anonymous from Patience (Jonah and the Whale) Anonymous from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Gawain Journeys North) Geoffrey Chaucer Envoy to Scogan John Gower from Confessio Amantis (Pygmaleon) (The Rape of Lucrece) 1430 Thomas Hoccleve from The Complaint of Hoccleve 'Aftir that hervest inned had hise sheves' 1440 Charles of Orleans (Ballade) ('In the forest of Noyous Hevynes') Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Take, take this cosse, attonys, atonys, my hert!') Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Go forth myn hert wyth my lady') 1450 (Sloane Lyrics) Anonymous 'Adam lay y-bownden' Anonymous 'I syng of a mayden' Anonymous 'The merthe of alle this londe' Anonymous (Christ Triumphant) Anonymous (Holly against Ivy) Anonymous 'Ther is no rose of swych vertu' 1500 John Skelton from Phyllyp Sparowe 'Whan I remembre agayn' Robert Henryson from The Testament of Cresseid 'O ladyis fair of Troy and Greece, attend' William Dunbar Lament, When He Wes Seik 1510 William Dunbar 'Done is a battell on the dragon blak' William Dunbar 'In to thir dirk and drublie dayis' 1515 Gavin Douglas/Virgil from The Aeneid from Book I (Aeolus Looses the Winds) from The Proloug of the Sevynt Buik of Eneados Anonymous (the ...
