A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Medieval/Middle English poetry
General
Pearsall, Derek, and Duncan Wu, eds. Poetry from Chaucer to Spenser. (Blackwell Essential Literature). Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
Trigg, Stephanie, ed. Medieval English Poetry. (Longman Critical Readers). London: Longman.
Warton, Thomas (Jr.). History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. 3 vols. London: Printed for, and sold by J. Dodsley ... J. Walter ... T. Becket, 1774-1781. (Vol. 1, 1774, rev. 1775; Vol. 2, 1778; Vol. 3, 1781. Literary history; Neoclassicism; Romanticism; Primitivism; Romance; Medieval literature).
Miscellaneous
Atkins, J. W. H. "14. Metrical Romances, 1200-1500: II." In From the Beginnings to the Cycle of Romance. Vol. 1 (English) of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Online at Bartleby.com
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2013
Barron, W. R. J. English Medieval Romance. (Longman Literature in English Series). London: Longman, 1987.
Bennett, H. S. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Verse and Prose. Vol. II of The Oxford History of English Literature. (Orig. vol. II part 1). Oxford: Oxford UP.
Cable, Tom. The English Alliterative Tradition. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991.
Camargo, M. The Middle English Verse Love Epistle. 1991.
Chambers, E. K. Malory and Fifteenth-Century Drama, Lyrics, and Ballads. Vol. III of The Oxford History of English Literature. (Orig. vol. II part 2). Oxford: Oxford UP.
Cornelius, Ian. Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017.
Fraga Fuentes, Mª Amelia. "A Study of the Role of the Virgin Mary in the Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-century English Crucifixion Lyrics." Atlantis 2.2 (Sept. 1981): 10-20.*
_____. "A Study of the Role of the Virgin Mary in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth-century English Crucifixion Lyrics (Part II)." Atlantis 3.1 (1981).
González Fernández de Sevilla, José Manuel. "Social Consciousness and Literary Dissent in Middle English Poetry." Selim 2 (1992): 91-105.
Gummere, Francis B. "17. Ballads." In The End of the Middle Ages. Vol. 2 (English) of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Online at Bartleby.com
2013
Hanna, R. "Alliterative Poetry." (Late medieval). In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Ed. D. Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Hernández Campoy, Juan Manuel. "Ladylikeness and Sociolinguistic Submission in Late Medieval English Society: Gender-based Use of Negation in John Paston I and Margaret Paston." Atlantis 35.1 (June 2013): 11-33.*
Hernández Pérez, Mª Beatriz. "Pasajes hacia lo onírico en la poesía ricardiana." In Actas del 25º Congreso AEDEAN, Granada 2001. CD-ROM. Granada: U de Granada: Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 2002.*
Minto, William. Characteristics of English Poetry from Chaucer to Shirley. 1874.
Padelford, Frederick Morgan. "16. Transition English Song Collections." In The End of the Middle Ages. Vol. 2 (English) of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Online at Bartleby.com
2013Percy, Thomas. Essay on Ancient Minstrels.
Quiller-Couch, Arthur. "After Chaucer." In Quiller-Couch, Studies in Literature: Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1922. 1927. 233-64.*
Reuters, A. H. Friendship and Love in the English Metrical Romances. 1991.
Saintsbury, George "18. The Prosody of Old and Middle English." In From the Beginnings to the Cycle of Romance. Vol. 1 (English) of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Online at Bartleby.com
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2013
_____. "8. The English Chaucerians." In The End of the Middle Ages. Vol. 2 (English) of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Online at Bartleby.com
2013
_____. "13. Prosody from Chaucer to Spenser." In The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 3: English: Renascence and Reformation. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. New York: Putnam, 1907-21. Online at Bartleby.com, 2000.* (1. The prosody of the fourteenth century. 2. Piers Plowman. 3. The staple of English poetry. 4. Chaucer and his successors. 5. "Doggerel." 6. The influence of music. 7. Wyatt and Surrey. 8. Sackville. 9 The drama. 10. The Shepheard's Calender. 11. Spenser's Mission).
2013
Spearing, A. C. Readings in Medieval Poetry. 1987. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.
Speirs, J. Medieval English Poetry. 1957.
Waller, A. R. "17. Later Transition English: Secular Lyrics; Tales; Social Satire." In From the Beginnings to the Cycle of Romance. Vol. 1 (English) of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Online at Bartleby.com
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2013
_____. "18. Political and Religious Verse to the Close of the Fifteenth Century—Final Words." In The End of the Middle Ages. Vol. 2 (English) of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Online at Bartleby.com
2013
Weiskort, Eric. English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016.
Anthologies
Childs, Francis James, ed. English and Scottish Popular Ballads. London: Harrap, 1904.
Cooper, E., ed. Muses Library, or a Series of English Poetry from the Saxons, to the Reign of King Charles II, Containing the Lives and Characters of all the known Writers in that interval, their Patrons, complete Episodes, by way of Specimen of the larger Pieces... London: Wilcox, etc., 1737.
Davies, R. T., ed. Medieval English Lyrics. London: Faber, 1963.
Hirsh, John C., ed. Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads and Carols. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
Ker, W. P., "13. Metrical Romances, 1200-1500: I." In From the Beginnings to the Cycle of Romance. Vol. 1 (English) of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Online at Bartleby.com
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2013
Kinsley, James, ed. The Oxford Book of Ballads. Oxford: Oxford UP.
Luria, Maxwell, and Richard Hoffman, eds. Middle English Lyrics. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 1974.
McKnight, George H., ed. Middle English Humorous Tales in Verse. Boston: Heath, 1913.
Morris, Richard, ed. Early English Alliterative Poems. EETS o.s. 1. London: Oxford UP, 1864.
Pearsall, Derek, ed. Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology. (Blackwell Anthologies). Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
Percy, Thomas, ed. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. 3 vols. 1765.
_____, ed. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of our earlier Poets, etc. New ed. 3 vols. Lewis, 1839.
_____, ed. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Ed. Henry B. Wheatley. 3 vols, 1886.
_____, ed. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Critical edition. Ed. M. M. Arnold Schröer. 2 vols. Berlin, 1889, 1893.
Shepherd, S. S. H., ed. Middle English Romances. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 1995.
Tottel's Miscellany. 1557.
