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Cover 1 About the pagination of this eBook 2 Half Title 5 Title Page 7 Copyright Page 8 Table of Contents 9 Introduction 13 Acknowledgements 15 Abbreviations 16 I Thinking in poetry: three medieval examples 17 II The poet and the book 47 III The sinking island and the dying author: R.W. Chambers fifty years on 63 IV The languages of medieval England 87 V Autobiographical poetry in the Middle Ages: the case of Thomas Hoccleve 109 VI Poems without endings 133 VII Politeness and privacy: Chaucer's Book of the Duchess 155 VIII Vituperations in Chaucer's poetry 165 IX Chaucer's Sir Thopas and La Prise de Nuevile 181 X Chaucer as petitioner: three poems 193 XI The portrayal of Amans in Confessio Amantis 201 XII Gower's poetic styles 221 XIII The endings of stories in Piers Plowman 233 XIV Lady Meed and the power of money 245 XV God and the fullness of time in Piers Plowman 251 XVI The old and new ploughs in Piers Plowman 257 XVII Hoccleve and the 'Court' 263 XVIII Hoccleve and the Middle French poets 275 XIX An eighteenth-century edition of Hoccleve 290 XX Hoccleve's questions: intonation and punctuation 305 XXI The fourteenth-century Arthur 315 XXII The Avowing of King Arthur 331 XXIII

Author

John A. Burrow

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