The shaping of English poetry - Morgan, Gerald (Lang, 2010)
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.
Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung; Fiktionale Darstellung; Piers Plowman; Canterbury tales; Faerie queene; Langland; William; Chaucer; Geoffrey; Spenser; Edmund