E. K. CHAMBERS - English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages.

London England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1957. 2nd Impression, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Hardback Hardback. English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages. Previous owners name to inside cover. Slight shelf wear to edge of D/J. This volume consists of four independent essays, dealing respectively with 'Medieval Drama', The Carol and Fifteenth-Century Lyric', Popular Narrative Poetry and the Ballad', and the late Arthurian romance of Sir Thomas Malory. Although its interest is centered in the Fifteenth Century, it inevitably takes a somewhat wider range, and looks both backwards and forwards. The beginnings alike of the Drama and of Lyrical Poetry belong to a much earlier period, and the full development of the Ballad cannot be regarded as complete before the Eighteenth Century.247 pp.