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The similarities between Lazamon's account of the Arthurian Battle of Badon Hill and contemporary narratives of the Battle of Crug Mawr reveal Lazamon's use of textual sources, collective recollections of historical events and his awareness of Britain's ongoing conflict.

SHAKESPEARE's Cymbeline has been the subject of much critical debate, on the grounds of dating, sources, and its supposed `Romanness'. It has already been suggested that there are some resonances [...]

The mating of doves and eagles is far from an impossibility but is subtly figured throughout Book II of 'Troilus and Criseyde', drawing together a complex set of associations between 'Purgatorio ix' and the golden eagle and 'Inferno v' and the doves. The strange white crossbred eagle is a superimposition of the eagle of 'Purgatorio ix' and the doves of 'Inferno v', one that figures the royal associations of Troilus with the doomed love of Paolo and Francesca.

Locus amoenus imagery in Old English poetry is now gaining focus of critical interest, after having been denied by many earlier studies. However envelope patterns in Old English descriptions of landscape were recognized and discussed within studies of individual poems and this rhetorical feature was not explored across Old English poetry as a feature of the vernacular locus amoenus.

Susan Howard's copious introduction to The Life of Harriot Stuart creates a number of expectations that the text then fails to fulfil. This is hardly the editor's fault, but one [...]

The Preface to this volume optimistically suggests that it will be useful to a wide readership: undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and generalist teachers. It begins promisingly with a brief but [...]

This book's imagined audience is 'not so much the expert on Herbert ... as any reader who has a general interest in poetry, and in what reading poetry involves'. What [...]

Elizabeth Middleton was 'discovered' for early modern women's writing by Margaret Ezell in The Patriarch's Wife (1987). A manuscript signed by Middleton was used by Ezell to support her claim [...]

Any volume which claims 'newness' as its chief attribute is asking for a particularly sceptical reading, and this one is no exception. One contribution in particular has curiosity value rather [...]

IT is difficult to generate excitement about the claims of Christopher Hodgkins to have `placed' George Herbert in ecclesiastical history: this is an exercise that has been attempted many times, [...]