The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff

The essays include studies of Old English language and early Anglo-Saxon scholarship, Middle English prosody and style, Chaucer, the Pearl--poet, Langland, and Gower. Many of them focus on the poetics and historical matrix of fourteenth-century literature, with special attention to its craft and style. M. TERESA TAVORMINA is Professor of English at Michigan State University; R.F. YEAGER is Professor of Literature and Language at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Contributors: E.G. STANLEY, MELISSA M. FURROW, RALPH HANNA III, STEPHEN A. BARNEY, TRAUGOTT LAWLER, J.A. BURROW, ANNE HIGGINS, WARREN GINSBERG, M. TERESA TAVORMINA, H. MARSHALL LEICESTER, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, SHERRY L. REAMES, MARY J. CARRUTHERS, ELIZABETH D. KIRK, R.F. YEAGER, FRED C. ROBINSON