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Medieval English Literature

1. Beowulf: A Prose Translation

   Nicholas Howe, E. Talbot Donaldson

   Second Edition

   The text of this edition of Beowulf is based on the highly regarded Donaldson prose translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem.More

2. Beowulf: A Verse Translation

   Daniel Donoghue, Seamus Heaney

   Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney’s translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).More

3. The Book of Margery Kempe

   Margery Kempe, Lynn Staley

   The text presented here remains as faithful to the original Middle English as possible, without sounding archaic.More

4. The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue

   Geoffrey Chaucer, V. A. Kolve, Glending Olson

   Second Edition

   This Norton Critical Edition includes the most admired of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.More

5. Dream Visions and Other Poems

   Geoffrey Chaucer, Kathyrn L. Lynch

   This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer’s four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.More

6. Eight Old English Poems

   Robert D. Fulk, John C. Pope

   Third Edition

   A meticulous updating of the highly respected Norton college paperback Seven Old English Poems, this Third Edition, retitled Eight Old English Poems meets the needs of both graduate and undergraduate students of Old English.More

7. The Gawain Poet: Complete Works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Cleanness, Pearl, Saint Erkenwald

   Marie Borroff

   Of the five poems contained in this book, two are acknowledged masterpieces. The plot of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an Arthurian romance, brilliantly interweaves elements of suspense and high comedy.More

8. Le Morte Darthur

   Thomas Malory, Stephen H. A. Shepherd

   The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes.More

9. Middle English Lyrics

   Richard L. Hoffman, Maxwell S. Luria

   This Norton Critical Edition offers one of the largest collections of Middle English lyrics ever made available to the college student.More

10. Middle English Romances

    Stephen H. A. Shepherd

    This Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance.More

11. The Norton Anthology of English Literature

    Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. Abrams, Alfred David, Et Al.

    Eighth Edition / Volume(s): Package 1: A, B, C / Middle Ages:Restoration and Eighteenth Century

    Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.More

12. The Norton Anthology of English Literature

    Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. Abrams, Alfred David, Et Al.

    Eighth Edition / Volume(s): 1 / Middle Ages:Restoration and Eighteenth Century

    Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.More

13. The Norton Anthology of English Literature

    Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. Abrams, Alfred David, Et Al.

    Eighth Edition / Volume(s): 1 / Middle Ages:Restoration and Eighteenth Century

    Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.More

14. The Norton Anthology of English Literature

    Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. Abrams, Alfred David, Et Al.

    Eighth Edition / Volume(s): A / The Middle Ages

    Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.More

15. The Norton Anthology of English Literature

    Stephen Greenblatt, Carol T. Christ, Alfred David, Et Al.

    Ninth Edition / Volume(s): A / The Middle Ages

    The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year.More