Chaucer to Spenser

the long version

"Derek Pearsall's major new anthology of English writing provides substantial representation of the work of Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-poet, Malory, Henryson, Skelton, More, Wyatt and Spenser and many other major writers of the period 1375-1575, not in isolation but in the full context of non-dramatic writing during these two centuries, so that the book can act as the student medieval 'reader' ... The anthology as a whole is organized to build, through its texts and apparatus, a solid first-hand understanding of two hundred years of English literary culture ..." -- Back cover.