Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing before 1700
- Author / Editor
- Bushnell, Rebecca, ed.
Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing before 1700
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
- Physical Description
- xii, 363 pp.
- Series
- Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture.
- Description
- Anthologizes a wide variety of selections from classical, biblical, medieval, and early modern literatures in a "companion to literary or cultural study of premodern ecological concerns." Includes two samples from Chaucer: a conflation of portions of the first 200 lines of LGWP-F and LGWP-G, and lines 302–71 of PF, both in modernized spelling, accompanied by glosses at the bottom of the page and brief introductions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Critricism
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