The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser [electronic resource] / Gerald Morgan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The significance of the pentangle symbolism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The action of the hunting and bedroom scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The meaning of kind wit, conscience and reason in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- Langland's conception of favel, guile, liar and false in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- The status and meaning of meed in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- The universality of the portraits in the general prologue to the Canterbury tales -- Rhetorical perspectives in the general prologue to the Ganterbury tales -- A defence of Dorigen's complaint -- The self-revealing tendencies of Chaucer's pardoner -- Holiness as the first of Spenser's Aristotelian moral virtues -- The idea of temperance in the second book of The faerie queene -- The meaning of Spenser's chastity as the fairest of virtues.

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