Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing before 1700

Author / Editor
Bushnell, Rebecca, ed.

Title
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
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Legend of Good Women
Parliament of Fowls