Old and Middle English Literature (c.700-1485)

Author / Editor
Burrow, J. A.

Title
Old and Middle English Literature (c.700-1485)

Published
Pat Rogers, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 1-58.

Description
Illustrated survey of Old and Middle English literature, with recurrent attention to linguistic conditions and the development of literary genres and conventions. Includes many comparative references to Chaucer in the discussion of Middle English literature, with a sustained comparison of Chaucer and Gower as "courtly makers" (pp. 39-50).
Reprinted without illustrations in Pat Rogers, ed. An Outline of English Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 1-57.

Contributor
Rogers, Pat, ed.

Alternative Title
Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature
Outline of English Literature

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations