The Christian Tradition in English Literature: Poetry, Plays, and Shorter Prose
- Author / Editor
- Cavill, Paul, and Heather Ward.
The Christian Tradition in English Literature: Poetry, Plays, and Shorter Prose
- Published
- Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2007.
- Physical Description
- 512 pp.
- Description
- Summaries of literary works, plus study questions designed for self-teaching, ranging from works of Bede and Caedmon to those of Philip Larkin and Edna O'Brien, with a summary of biblical plots, Christian history, hymns, and a glossary of terms. Two sections pertain to Chaucer: (1) a comparison of NPT with the fable of Marie de France and Henryson's The Cock and the Fox (pp. 44-48); and (2) a commentary on Christian religion in GP and in PardPT (pp. 56-61).
- Contributor
- Ward, Heather.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary relations
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Pardoner and His Tale