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100	1		_aMorgan, Gerald
245	0	1	_aThe Shaping of English Poetry _bEssays on 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', Langland, Chaucer and Spenser _c['Morgan, Gerald']
264		1	_bPeter Lang _c2011
300			_a p.
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700	0		_aMorgan, Gerald
856	4	0	_2Cyberlibris _uhttps://international.scholarvox.com/netsen/book/88847467 _qtext/html _a
520			_aThis collection of essays is conceived not as a summary of past endeavours but as the beginning of an attempt to present a sense of the wholeness of a distinctively English literature from Beowulf to Spenser. The native alliterative tradition of England is represented by its final flowering in two essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and three on Piers Plowman. The renewal of English letters in the fourteenth century, inspired by continental models in French and Italian, is represented by four essays on Chaucer. The poetic achievement of these three medieval masters remains unmatched until Spenser announces himself in a third great age in the history of English poetry and this is represented by three essays on the first three books of The Faerie Queene. Spenser’s indebtedness to Langland and Chaucer, and his philosophical conservatism in drawing on the thought of Aristotle and the tradition of medieval commentary surrounding the works of Aristotle, ensure that the tradition of English poetry in the Renaissance is securely rooted in its medieval inheritance.
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