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English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism

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• English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
• English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
• English poetry -- History and criticism

• Christian poetry, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
• Love poetry, English (Middle) -- History and criticism

• Revivalist Fantasy: Alliterative Verse and Nationalist Literary History (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Randy P. Schiff (PDF at Ohio State)
• The English Dream Vision: Anatomy of a Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by J. Stephen Russell (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by Sarah Appleton Weber (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Secular Lyric (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1951), by Arthur Keister Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Fulfillment of the Scriptures: Abraham, Moses, and Piers (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Ruth M. Ames (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by Sarah Appleton Weber (PDF at Ohio State)

• Love and Ethics in Gower's Confessio Amantis (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Peter Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Early English Alliterative Poems, in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century (EETS #1, second edition; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1869, reprinted 1965), ed. by Richard Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Middle English Poem Erthe Upon Erthe, Printed From Twenty-Four Manuscripts (EETS original series #141; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, c1911, reprinted 1964), ed. by Hilda M. R. Murray (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Chepman and Myllar Prints, contrib. by Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar (page images and HTML with commentary in the UK)
• The Chief Middle English Poets: Selected Poems, Newly Rendered and Edited, With Notes and Bibliographical References (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1914), ed. by Jessie L. Weston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Floure and the Leafe, The Assemblie of Ladies, and The Isle of Ladies, ed. by Derek Albert Pearsall, contrib. by Geoffrey Chaucer (HTML at Rochester)
• The Harley Lyrics, ed. by Frances McSparran (HTML at Michigan)
• Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse, ed. by Russell A. Peck (HTML at Rochester)
• The Middle English Breton Lays, ed. by Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury (HTML at Rochester)
• The Minor Poems of the Vernon MS. (published in 2 parts (part III never published) as EETS #98 and #117; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench Trübner and Co., 1892-1901), ed. by Carl Horstmann and Frederick James Furnivall
  • Part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II (with a few from the Digby MSS. 2 and 86): multiple formats at archive.org
• Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry: From Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies (London: Printed by C. Clarke for T. and J. Egerton, 1791), ed. by Joseph Ritson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace, ed. by Edward E. Foster (HTML at Rochester)
• Corn from Olde Fieldes: An Anthology of English Poems From the XIVth to the XVIIth Century, With Biographical Notes (London and New York: J. Lane, ca. 1918), ed. by Eleanor M. Brougham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Historical and Poetical Medley: or, Muses Library (London: Printed for T. Davies, 1738), ed. by Mrs. Cooper and William Oldys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patience: An Alliterative Version of Jonah by the Poet of Pearl (London: Oxford University Press, 1913), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, Reproduced in Facsimile From the Unique Ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum (EETS original series #162; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1923), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, ed. by Thomas Hahn (HTML at Rochester)
• Three Middle English Charlemagne Romances, ed. by Alan Lupack (HTML at Rochester)
• Four Middle English Romances: Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour or Artois, Sir Tryamour, ed. by Harriet Hudson (HTML at Rochester)

• The Canterbury Tales: A Complete Translation into Modern English (c1993), by Geoffrey Chaucer, trans. by Ronald L. Ecker and Eugene Joseph Crook (HTML at fsu.edu)
• The Chief Middle English Poets: Selected Poems, Newly Rendered and Edited, With Notes and Bibliographical References (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1914), ed. by Jessie L. Weston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sir Cleges; Sir Libeaus Desconus: Two Old English Metrical Romances Rendered Into Prose (London: D. Nutt, 1902), trans. by Jessie L. Weston, illust. by Caroline Watts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi (5 volumes; 1978-2000), ed. by Sarah M. Horrall, Roger R. Fowler, Henry J. Stauffenberg, Peter H. J. Mous, L. M. Eldredge, and Anne L. Klinck
  • Volume I: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume II: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume III: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume IV: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • Volume V: PDF with commentary at Ottawa
• Confessio Amantis, by John Gower (HTML at Michigan)
• Pearl, ed. by Sarah Stanbury (HTML at Rochester)
• A Stanzaic Life of Christ, Compiled From Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea, Edited From Ms. Hartley 3909 (EETS original series #166; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926), ed. by Frances A. Foster, contrib. by Ranulf Higden and Jacobus de Voragine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse, ed. by Russell A. Peck (HTML at Rochester)
• Moral Love Songs and Laments, ed. by Susanna Fein (HTML at Rochester)
• The Vision of Piers Plowman, by William Langland (HTML at Michigan)
• The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman (4 volumes in 5, EETS original series 28, 38, 54, 67, and 81; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner and Co., 1867-1885), by William Langland, ed. by Walter W. Skeat
  • Volume I (Text A): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (Text B): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (Text C): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV Section I (Notes to Texts A, B, and C): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV Section II (General preface, notes, and indexes): multiple formats at Google
• The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, by William Langland (or Langley), According to the Version Revised and Enlarged by the Author, About A.D. 1377 (ninth edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1906), by William Langland, ed. by Walter W. Skeat (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, in Three Parallel Texts; Together With Richard the Redeless (2 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1886), by William Langland, ed. by Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works of William Herebert, OFM, by William Herebert, ed. by Stephen R. Reimer (HTML at Michigan)
• The Life of Saint Katherine, by John Capgrave, ed. by Karen A. Winstead (HTML at Rochester)
• Middle English Marian Lyrics, ed. by Karen Saupe (HTML at Rochester)

• The Owl and the Nightingale (MS Cotton), ed. by J. W. H. Atkins (HTML at Michigan)
• The Owl and the Nightingale (MS Jes. Col. 29), ed. by J. W. H. Atkins (HTML at Michigan)
• The Parliament of Fowles, by Geoffrey Chaucer (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages, ed. by Warren Ginsberg (HTML at Rochester)

• Moral Love Songs and Laments, ed. by Susanna Fein (HTML at Rochester)

• Confessio Amantis, by John Gower (HTML at Michigan)
• Moral Love Songs and Laments, ed. by Susanna Fein (HTML at Rochester)

• Medieval English Political Writings, ed. by James M. Dean (HTML at Rochester)
• Richard the Redeless, and Mum and the Sothsegger, ed. by James M. Dean (HTML at Rochester)
• The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333-1352, by Laurence Minot, ed. by Richard H. Osberg (HTML at Rochester)

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