TY - BOOK AU - Zesmer,David M. TI - Guide to English literature from Beowulf through Chaucer and medieval drama AV - PR166 .Z4 U1 - 820.9 PY - 1961///] CY - New York PB - Barnes & Noble KW - English literature KW - Old English, ca. 450-1100 KW - History and criticism KW - Middle English, 1100-1500 KW - Littérature anglaise KW - 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) KW - Histoire et critique KW - Bibliographie KW - Littérature anglo-normande N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Old English period: Historical and linguistic background of the old English period -- Anglo-Saxon literary culture -- Beowulf and the heroic tradition -- Elegiac, Caedmonian, and Cynewulfian poems -- Old English prose and miscellaneous verse -- Middle English period -- General view of the middle English period -- Middle English romance -- Middle English prose -- Lyrics and folk ballads -- Alliterative revival: Sir Gawain, Pearl, and Piers Plowman -- Debates, didactic verse and satire -- Chaucer: Minor works and Troilus -- Canterbury tales -- Fifteenth-century Chaucerians -- Medieval drama in England -- Bibliographies: Old English bibliographical guide -- Middle English bibliographical guide; Also issued online UR - http://www.archive.org/details/guidetoenglishli00zesm UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL5823243M ER -