Chaucer to Spenser

Derek Pearsall is the Gurney Professor of English at Harvard University and was Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, 1965-85. His numerous publications include John Lydgate (1970), Old English and Middle English Poetry (1977), The Canterbury Tales: A Critical Study (1985), An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Langland (1990) and The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (1992).

• Aplphabetical List of Authors and Works. Introduction.Acknowledgements.List of Abbreviations and Short Titles.Chronological Table of Dates.Map.1. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400).The Parliament of Fowls.From Troilus and Criseyde.From The Canterbury Tales.Minor Poems.2. William Langland (1375-1380).From The Vision of Piers Plowman (c-text).3. The Letters of John Ball (1381).4. John Trevisa (1402).5. The Wycliffite Bible (1380-1400).6. 'The Gawain-Poet' (1390).From Sir Gawain and The Green Knight.From Patience.7. John Gower 91408).From Confessio Amantis.8. Mandeville's Travels (1390-1400).9. The Cloud of Unknowing (1390-1400).10. Julian of Norwich (1342-14180.From The Revelations of Divine Love.11. The Alliterative Morte Arthure.12. William Thorpe.From The Testimony of William Thorpe.13. Nicholas Love (1410).14. Thomas Hoccleve (1368-1426).From La Male Regle De T. Hoccleve.From The Regement of Princes.From 'The Series'.15. John Lydgate (1371-1449).From The Troy-Book.From The Siege of Thebes.From The Life of Our Lady.From The Dance Macabre.From The Fall of Princes.Letter to Gloucester.From The Testament of Dan John Lydgate.16. Maragret Kempe (1373-1440).From The Book of Margery Kempe.17. Charles of Orleans 91394-1465).18. Anonymous Songs and Short Poems, Religious, Comic and Amatory.19. Love-Poems (By Women?) From The Findern Manuscript.20. Popular Ballads.21. Reginald Pecock (1392/5- 1460).22. The Paston Letters.23. Sir John Fortescue (1395-1477).From The Governance of England.24. Sir Thomas Malory (1410-1471).From Morte D'Arthur.25. William Caxton (1422-14920.26. Robert Henryson (1430-1505).The Testament of Cresseid.From The Fables.27. William Dunbar (1456-15150.Meditation in Winter.Christ in Triumph.From The Golden Targe.From The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow.28. Gavin Dougles (1475-1522).From The Aeneid-Translation.29. Stephen Hawes (1521).From The Pastime of Pleasure.30. John Skelton (1460-1529).31. The First English Life of Henry V (1513).32. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535).From The History of King Richard III.From Utopia.From A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation.33. Sir Thomas Elyot (1490-1546).From The Book Named the Governor.34. William Tyndale (1494-1536).From The Prologue to the New Testament.From The New Testament.From The Obedience of a Christian Man.35. Simon Fish (1500-1531).36. William Roper (1496-1577).37. Sir David Lindsay (1486-1555).From Squire Meldrum.38. George Cavendish (1499-1562).From The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey.From Metrical Visions.39. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542).40. John Leland (1506-15520.41. Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517-1547).42. High Latimer (1491-1555).From The 'Sermon of the Plougher'.43. Roger Ascham (1515-1568).From Toxophilus, or, The School of Shooting.From The Schoolmaster.44. A Mirror fro Magistrates (1563).45. John Foxe (1517-1587).From The Acts and Monumnets of Martyrs.46. George Gascoigne (1539-1578).From The Steel Glass.From The Spoil of ANtwerp.47. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599).Textual Variants.Glossary of Common Hard Words.Index.

"The true proof of an anthology is its classroom performance. . .Pearsall's smorgasbord of short extracts, dressed with first-rate contextualizing commentary and references to just the right secondary literature, inspire much independent investigation and a joyous crop of non- repetitive termpapers." "Above all, it is a pleasure to work with a volume annotated from a lifetimes's learning and leavened by rare, companionable humour. Many moments linger." Medium Aevum