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| Editors' Preface | |
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| Introduction: Medieval English Literature | |
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| Old English Poetry | |
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| Caedmon's Hymn | |
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| Beowulf | |
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| Judith from The Death of Holofernes | |
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| Elegies | |
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| The Wanderer | |
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| The Wife's Complaint | |
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| The Husband's Message | |
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| Wulf and Eadwacer | |
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| Engimas and Wisdom | |
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| The Queen and the Frisian Wife | |
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| Riddles | |
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| Genesis B from The Temptation of Eve | |
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| The Dream of the Rood | |
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| The Battle of Maldon | |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1343-1400 | |
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| The Canterbury Tales General Prologue | |
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| The Miller's Prologue and Tale | |
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| The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale | |
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| Two Other Fox Stories from The Bestiary from Robert Henryson, Fables The Fox and the Wolf | |
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| The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale | |
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| William Dunbar from The Two Married Women and the Widow | |
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| The Franklin's Prologue and Tale | |
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| Gentilesse | |
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| The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale | |
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| from The Legend of Good Women The Legend of Thisbe of Babylon | |
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| Troilus and Criseyde | |
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| Robert Henryson The Complaint of Cresseid | |
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| Chaucer's Words unto Adam, His Own Scribe | |
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| Chaucer's Retractions | |
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| Romance | |
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| Sir Orfeo | |
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| Thomas the Rhymer | |
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| The Land of Cokaygne | |
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| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | |
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| Sir Thomas Malory from Morte Darthur [The Birth of Arthur and the Sword in the Stone] [The Fair Maid of Astolat] [The Death of Arthur] | |
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| The Visions Of Piers Plowman from the Prologue from Passus I from Passus XVIII | |
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| Theater | |
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| The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play | |
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| The Chester Play of Noah | |
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| Everyman | |
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| from The Castle of Perseverance: The Seven Deadly Sins | |
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| Women's Writing And Women's Experience | |
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| Ancrene Wisse (A Guide for Anchoresses) | |
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| Holy Maidenhood (A Letter on Virginity) | |
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| Saint Scholastica | |
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| The Book of Margery Kempe | |
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| What So Men Sayn | |
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| Middle English Lyrics | |
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| Spring | |
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| Now Springs the Spray | |
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| Sumer is Ycomen In | |
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| The Thrush and the Nightingale | |
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| Alison | |
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| Separated Lovers | |
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| Western Wind | |
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| He Is Far | |
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| I Have a Young Sister | |
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| The Maid of the Moor | |
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| The Agincourt Carol | |
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| Bring Us In Good Ale | |
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| I Have Set My Heart So High | |
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| All Too Late | |
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| A Woman Sat Weeping | |
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| Divine Love | |
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| I Sing of a Maiden | |
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| Of One That Is So Fair and Bright | |
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| Adam Lay Ybounden | |
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| Corpus Christi Carol | |
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| Ballads | |
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| The Cherry-Tree Carol | |
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| The Two Magicians | |
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| The Carpenter's Wife [The Demon Lover] | |
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| The Wife of Usher's Well | |
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| The Unquiet Grave | |
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| Lord Randel | |
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| The Three Ravens | |
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| The Birth of Robin Hood | |
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| Sir Patrick Spence | |
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| William Dunbar, c. 1460-c. 1514 | |
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| Lament for the Makers | |
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| William Caxton, 1415/24-1492 | |
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| The Proem to The Canterbury Tales from the Preface to The Aeneid | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Author and Title Index | |
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| First-Line Index | |