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* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to the poets’ lives and works
* Concise introductions to the works
* Most of the poems appear with their original medieval texts, as well as an English translation — ideal for students
* Images of how the original manuscripts first appeared, giving your eReader a taste of the medieval texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Easily locate the sections you want to read
* Features three critical works on the development of medieval literature
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order

CONTENTS:

Medieval Poetry
Hymn by Cædmon (7th century)
Christ II by Cynewulf (8th century) (Tr. Raymond Wilson Chambers)
Beowulf (c.1000) (Tr. William Morris)
The Song of Roland (c. 1050) (Tr. C. K. Moncreiff)
The Poem of the Cid (c. 1140) (Tr. Robert Southey)
Chronicle of the Norman Conquest from ‘Roman de Rou’ by Wace (c. 1170) (Tr. Edgar Taylor)
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes (c. 1180) (Tr. William Wistar Comfort)
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1210) (Tr. Jessie Weston)
The Troubadours (1100-1350) by H. J. Chaytor
The Knight in the Panther’s Skin by Shota Rustaveli (c. 1190) (Tr. Marjory Wardrop)
The Song of the Nibelungs (c. 1200) (Tr. Daniel Bussier Shumway)
Lays of Marie de France (c. 1210) (Tr. Eugene Mason)
The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris [PARTIAL TRANSLATION] (c. 1230) (Tr. Geoffrey Chaucer)
Poetic Edda (c. 13th century) (Tr. Benjamin Thorpe)
Wine, Women and Song: Mediæval Latin Students’ Songs (c. 13th century) (Tr. John Addington Symonds)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1320) (Tr. H. F. Cary)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375) (Tr. Jessie Weston)
Sonnets by Francesco Petrarca (c. 1374) (Tr. Thomas Campbell)
Piers Plowman by William Langland (c. 1380) Edited by Thomas Wright
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1400)

The Criticism
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory by George Saintsbury
Medieval English Literature by W. P. Ker
Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature by W. P. Ker