Enigma and Revelation in Renaissance English literature

Transmission and generation in medieval and Renaissance literature

Essays in honour of John Scattergood

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This collection of essays focuses on the processes of intellectual transmission in medieval and Renaissance literature, paying particular attention to the ways in which knowledge passes from one...
Author/Editor: Karen Hodder & Brendan O'Connell, editors

Occasions for writing

Essays on medieval and renaissance literature, politics and society

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In 1974, in an introduction to Ben Jonson’s poetry, Thom Gunn wrote: ‘all poetry is occasional: whether the occasion is an external event like a birthday or...
Author/Editor: John Scattergood

Studies in late medieval and early renaissance texts in honour of John Scattergood

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Essays published in honour of the Trinity College-based scholar who has been at the forefront of Middle English studies in Ireland for many years. *Anne Marie D’Arcy* is...
Author/Editor: Anne Marie D'Arcy & Alan J. Fletcher, editors

Heresy and orthodoxy in early English literature, 1350–1680

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English literature from Chaucer to Milton was produced in a culture where accusations of heresy were frequently made, and where the meaning of orthodoxy was unsettled. The...
Author/Editor: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & John Flood, editors

Chaucer's Poetry

Words, authority and ethics

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This book reminds us of the reasons to read, and re-read, Chaucer. The essays cast new light on the poetry and, in their careful scholarship and sensitivity...
Author/Editor: Clíodhna Carney & Frances McCormack, editors

The lost tradition

Essays on Middle English alliterative poetry

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Four stresses, a line broken in two by a caesura, and a pattern of alliteration linking the two half-lines were features of the staple manner of Anglo-Saxon...
Author/Editor: John Scattergood