The Middle English Verse Love Epistle

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Walter de Gruyter, Oct 10, 2013 - Literary Criticism - 228 pages
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Contents

The Love Epistles
121
49 The Litera Troili and the Earliest English Verse Love Epistles
122
5 Flowering and Decline
127
52 Social Function
130
53 Genre Awareness
134
532 Intertextuality
136
533 Parody
138
534 Religious Adaptation
141

28 AngloNorman Formulary MS Harley 3988
32
29 John Gower Cinkante Balades
35
210 De amico ad amicam and Responcio
45
3 Chaucers Heroides
49
The Letters of Troilus and Criseyde Book II
53
The Litera Troili
65
34 The Litera Criseydis
78
4 The Emergence of the Verse Love Epistle
87
42 Other Varieties of Verse Epistle
91
43 Love Documents in English
93
Love Documents and Love Epistles
98
Ballades and Love Epistles
106
The Love Epistles
110
The Complaint and the Love Epistle
114
54 Formal Experimentation and Innovation
145
541 Verse Form and Length
146
542 Number Position and Proportion of Parts
149
55 Themes
155
56 The End of the Tradition
159
6 Conclusion
165
Zusammenfassung
169
English Verse Love Epistles ca 14001568
171
Part B
183
The Letter of Dydo to Eneas
193
Works Cited
201
Secondary Works
205
Index
213
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