...Theodore L. Steinberg Although there is a sizable body of medieval Hebrew poetry, that poetry is almost never included in courses on medieval literature. This neglect creates a misleading picture of the European Middle Ages. This essay attempts to show why and then to demonstrate how this poetry...

... University Press 2017 Dante translation medieval poetry Works Cited Ageno Franca Brambilla , ed. 1995 . Convivio , by Alighieri Dante . Florence : Le Lettere . Durling Robert , trans. 1997 . Inferno , by Alighieri Dante . Oxford : Oxford University Press...

... Irish prose (1981), Sioned Davies’s translations of medieval Welsh prose (2007), and Joseph Clancy’s translations of Welsh poetry (2003) are also particularly useful sources not already mentioned. A dictionary is sometimes useful for information on a key term or when trying to relate...

...” (XXVI, 91 – 135) and Arnaut Daniel (XXVI, 115 – 20, 136 – 48), a poet whose amatory language, like Dante’s own poetry here, turns on the tension of the theologi- Bolduc    Medieval Rhetoric and the Commedia  51 cal and the erotic; similarly, Arnaut is praised in the De...

... . Black Joseph , eds. 2009 . The Medieval Period. Vol. 1 of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature , 2nd ed. Peterborough, ON : Broadview Press . Burrow John A. 1971 . Ricardian Poetry: Chaucer, Gower, Langland and the Gawain Poet . London : Routledge . Cooper Helen...

... critically on the practice of criticism, especially the way it determines the standard by which we judge poetry. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Works Cited Asterisks indicate the required texts for the course described in the article. * Black Joseph , eds. 2009 . The Medieval Period...

...Julie Orlemanski Robert Henryson: The Complete Works . Edited by Parkinson David J. . TEAMS Middle English Texts Series . Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications , 2010 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Works Cited Edmondson George . 2008...

... medieval poetry to contemporary fiction. I originally approached this quick-paced, anthology- based introduction with doubts and disillusionment. How could a course that moves so quickly through the centuries and jumps so abruptly among writers and literary tendencies give the students anything...

..., or drama. While such an inclusion is unlikely to happen outside of medieval studies, Sponsler’s edition might entice others to “take the heede” of Lydgate’s “noble devyses, dyvers ordenaunces.” Works Cited Cooper, Lisa H., and Andrea Denny-­Brown, eds. 2008. Lydgate Matters: Poetry...

... of Chaucer’s Middle English poetry; bring them into contact with the Middle Ages — its history and culture — knowing that, for many students, this course will be their only encounter with medieval material; [and] engage with religious ideas, cultural practices, historical specificities distant from...

... 2011 Contributors Herman Asarnow is professor of English and chair at the University of Port- land in Oregon, where he teaches poetry, Renaissance and eighteenth-­century literature, and satire. He is the author of Glass-­Bottom Boat (2007...

... of outlook.” It upholds divergence, possibilities, suspended judgment. Estes’s fascination, in her poetry, with aesthetic detail both in its original locus and explored in medieval anagogi- cal fashion, inspired a similar attitude in student reflectories. The essays by Heaney, Warren, or Robert Pinsky...

...Conrad van Dijk Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower . Edited by R. F. Yeager and Brian W. Gastle. New York : Modern Language Association , 2011 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Reviews “We therefore ben tawht...

...Kari Lokke “The Fairy of the Fountains” is one of Letitia Landon's most enigmatic and disturbing poems. It makes for particularly difficult reading because Landon sought in this poem to translate the forms of ballad and medieval lay into her own nineteenth-century poetic idiom. Her replication...

..., and the reception of fiction in late medieval and early modern literature. 408  pedagogy Corey Sparks is a PhD candidate in the English department at Indiana Uni- versity, Bloomington, where he works on late medieval English poetry and spaces of confinement. In addition to having taught courses...

... . “ Becoming (Queer) Medieval: Queer Methodologies in Medieval Studies: Where Are We Now? ” Medieval Feminist Forum 36 : 9 – 14 . Perloff Marjorie . 2000 . “ In Defense of Poetry: Put the Literature Back into Literary Studies .” Boston Review . marjorieperloff.com/stein-duchamp-picasso/defense...

... of work that binds together virtually every aspect of medieval thought and culture. The Commedia alone can be read in many ways, from an encyclope- dia of medieval knowledge to a compendium of what is essential in medieval culture, and from political chronicle to divine poetry. Importantly, Dante did...

...- losophy   67 Bolduc, Michelle | Medieval Rhetoric and the Commedia   49 Clark, Anne L. | Teaching Dante as a Visionary Prophet   105 Conway, Melissa | Introducing Undergraduates to Books from the Age of Dante — in Twenty Minutes or Less   133 Drell,  Joanna H. | Using Dante to Teach the Middle...

... in the Canterbury Tales. The documents on medieval Jewry similarly situate Chaucer as an inheritor and not the sole creator of the complex and contradic- tory values and ideas that emerge from careful readings of his poetry. Amtower and Vanhoutte’s volume lends itself to an array of assign- ments...

... of the fifteenth century. The eight critics who contribute to this volume point to the dynamic historical contexts, the theoretical cruxes, and the shifting materialities of this period’s oft-­neglected poetry, prose, and drama. After a useful introductory essay, the collection is divided into three...