A07.01 Old English I Readings: Conversion of Edwin; The Wanderer; Beowulf
A07.02 Old English II Readings
A07.03 Middle English I Readings
A07.03A General Prologue to Canterbury Tales--Chaucer
A07.04 Readings from Early Modern English
1. Oh what a rogue & peasant slave...Hamlet
2. First meeting of Romeo & Juliet
3. Shakespeare's Sonnets #73, 129
4. The Collar from George Herbert Virtue
5. A Character of Fiori from Absolom & Achitophel by John Dryden
6. Beginning of Epistle II--Essay on Man, A. Pope
7. From the Preface to God's Determinations by Edith Taylor
A07.05 Readings in Old, Middle, and Modern English
1. Beginning of Beowulf
2. Beginning of the Wanderer
3. Beginning of Arthur's Dream from Lawman Brut
4. Beginning of Prologue of A-text of Piers Ploughman
5. Beginning of General Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
6. I Sing of a Maiden (Middle English lyric)
7. Sonnet 129--Shakespeare (Early Modern English and Modern English)
8. Cymera by Ernest Dowson
9. The Farmer's Wife by Charlotte Mew
10. Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins
A07.06 Development of English through Poetry
Old English: Beowulf, introduction; the Wanderer, 1st section
Middle English: Lawman's Brut, beginning of Arthur's last battle;
Prologue of Canterbury Tales (Chaucer); I sing of a Maiden (Anon.)
Early Modern English: Shakespeare Sonnet 129
Modern English: Hopkins: Carrion Comfort; D. Thomas: Fern Hill
A07.07 Chaucer: Truth (Baugh, p. 536); Canterbury Tales:
Prologue, Lines 1-18; Squire, Lines 79-10; Miller, Lines
545-566; Knights Tale, lines 2761-2800; Miller's Tale,
lines 3271-3292
A07.08 Chaucer: The Nun's Priest's Tale (lines 4253-4311 have
been cut)
A07.09 Selections from Beowulf and Chaucer
Beowulf: 1. Prologue 2. Beowulf's Voyage to Denmark
3. Part of Fight with Grendel 4. Scene at Banquet in Heorot
5. Hrothgar's description of Grendel's Home 6. The Speech
of the Sole Survivor as he buries Treasure 7. Conclusion
Chaucer: 1. Prologue to Canterbury Tales 2. General
Prologue (The Prioress) 3. General Prologue (Clerk at
Oxford) 4. The Wife of Bath's Prologue 5. The Prioress'
Tale 6. Troilus & Criseyde
A07.10 Canterbury Tales--Chaucer
1. Pardoner's Prologue & Tale 2. The Nun's Priest's Tale
read in middle English by Robert Ross
A07.11 Old English Parables from Sweet's Primer
A07.11A Readings from Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader--Whitelock
read in Middle English: The Lord's Prayer; Parable from
Matthew 7:24:27; The Voyages of Ohthere Wulfstan
A07.12 Guide to Chaucer's Pronunciation--Kokeritz
The sounds of Middle English: pp 13ff: "Merciless
Beaute;" "Gentilesse"
A07.13 An Old English Grammar--R. Quirk and C.L. Wrenn
Old English Pronunciation: paragraphs 14-23
A07.14 Old English Pronunciation II
A07.15 The Canterbury Tales--Chaucer,
read in Middle English by J. B. Bessinger, Jr.
Side 1: The General Prologue, through the Wife of Bath
Side 2: General Prologue, Parson to the conclusion;
Prologue to the Parson's Tale; Chaucer's retraction
A07.16 Two Canterbury Tales--Chaucer,
read in Middle English by J. B. Bessinger, Jr.
Side 1: The Miller's Tale, introduction; The Miller's
Tale, beginning
Side 2: The Miller's Tale, continued; The Reeve's Tale,
introduction; The Reeve's Tale
A07.17 Old English Poems from "Seven Old English Poems"
edited by John Pope, read in Old English by Alfred David
1. The Battle of Moldon; 2. The Seafarer
A07.18 Troilus and Criseide--Chaucer
excerpts from Book One read in Middle English
A07.19-23 The Knight's Tale from The Canterbury Tales--Chaucer
A07.24-25 The Franklin's Tale from The Canterbury Tales--Chaucer
A07.26 Middle English Lyrics from Medieval English Literature
edited by Thomas J Garbati
A07.27 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, part I
A07.28 The Friar's Tale and the Summoner's Prologue--Chaucer
A07.29-30 The Summoner's Tale--Chaucer
A07.31 Elements of Old English--Moore, Knott, and Hulbert
Chapters 2-18
A07.32-33 The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale--Chaucer
A07.34 The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale--Chaucer
Side 1: Portrait of the Wife of Bath; the Wife of Bath's Prologue
Side 2: The Wife of Bath's Prologue; The Wife of Bath's Tale
A07.35-36 Troilus and Cresseide--Chaucer
A07.37 Sir Orfeo, Midland dialect, about 1330
A07.38 Three Selections from Norton Anthology of English Literature:
Caedmon's Hymn; The Last Survivor's Speech; Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight
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