Thematic Guide to British Poetry

Author / Editor
Glancy, Ruth.

Title
Thematic Guide to British Poetry

Published
Westport, Conn.; and London:: Greenwood, 2002.

Physical Description
xii, 303 pp.

Description
Glancy surveys twenty-nine themes (some with sub-themes) in British poetry, describing their occurrence from the late Middle Ages to the present. Topics include beauty, death, love, old age, sleep, and war. Glancy summarizes Chaucer's Marriage Group (WBPT, ClT, MerT, and FranT) and mentions the Prioress and the Wife of Bath in a section on pride and vanity, respectively.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.