Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Abbreviations IX
4. Aesthetics and Earlier English Literature: An Introduction to the Gathering 1
5. The Aesthetics of “Cædmon’s Hymn” 5
6. The Art of the Psychological Narrative in Old English and Old Saxon Verse 11
7. Naming the Enemy and Identifying Ourselves: The Warriors of Maldon 35
8. Fear, Time, and Lack: The Egesa of Beowulf 53
9. Geometrical Proportion and the Music of Voweled Undersong in The Dream of the Rood 67
10. Troilus and Criseyde and the Modes of Beauty 78
11. Women in Love: On the Unity of The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde 96
12. Chaucer’s Insatiable Wives: Women Eating Men and the Romantic Turn in the Canterbury Tales 115
13. Doubling and the Thopas-Melibee Link 129
14. “His lady grace” and the Performance of the Squire 142
15. Mood, Tense, Pronouns, Questions: Chaucer and the Poetry of Grammar 165
16. Art for Art’s Sake: Aesthetic Decisions in John Gower’s Cinkante Balades 179
17. Recipes for the Realm: John Lydgate’s ‘Soteltes’ and The Debate of the Horse, Goose, and Sheep 194
18. Devotional Practice in “Crafted” Mystical Prose and Poetry: A Preliminary Inquiry 216
19. Trawþe and Tresoun: Translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 228
20. Cosmopolitanism, Medievalism, and Romanticism: The Case of Coleridge 244
21. ‘A Definite Claim to Beauty’: The Canterbury Tales in the Kelmscott Chaucer 262
22. Howell Chickering: A Bibliography 291
23. Contributors 294