“the norton anthology of english literature”
Find a poem, story, play, or literary selection that you either really like or dislike from “the norton anthology of english literature” that inspires you. Then
imitate the poet’s style and use similar elements as symbolism, imagery, rhythm, stanza form, and/or line structure(how the sentences fit into lines and stanzas) There
are 3 parts to this assignment. 1/ Introduce your selection from the book and tell me what inspired you to want to imitate it. Also, tell me what you hope to pull from
the original as a source of inspiration for your original creative work. 2/ Then, create your own literary piece. you may update the language, create your rhyme( or
lack thereof) and even change the perspective. An example would be Karl Marx who was inspired to write his Communist Manifesto based on Thomas More’s Utopia who was
inspired after reading Plato’s The Republic. 3/ Finally, interpret your selection so the meaning will not be lost for future generations to ponder and conclude(
probably erroneously) about what your creation actually meant
those are the requirments please make sure to follow it
and please choose any of the following sonnets
YOU WILL FIND A FILE ATTACHED CONTAINS ALL OF THE CONTENTS THAT YOU SHOULD GET THE POEM FROM note you should only do one sonnet you can choose from the attached file
and make it seem as if international student wrote and use simple vocabullary
** NEW TRANSLATION * NEW AUTHOR OR WORK COMPLETE LONGER WORK ** NEW TRANSLATION * NEW AUTHOR OR WORK COMPLETE LONGER WORK 1
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Volume 1: The Middle Ages
Through the Restoration
and the Eighteenth Century
The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)
Introduction
Timeline
ANGLO–SAXON LITERATURE
BEDE (ca. 673–735) and CÆDMON’S HYMN
An Ecclesiastical History of the English People
[The Story of Cædmon]
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
BEOWULF translated by Seamus Heaney
JUDITH
**THE WANDERER (New verse translation)
**THE WIFE’S LAMENT (New verse translation)
*IRISH LITERATURE
*The Tain
Cúchulainn’s Boyhood Deeds
*EARLY IRISH LYRICS (9th Century)
*The Scholar and His Cat
*The Scribe in the Woods
*The Lord of Creation
*My Hand Is Weary with Writing
ANGLO–NORMAN LITERATURE
THE MYTH OF ARTHUR’S RETURN
Geoffrey of Monmouth: From The History of
the Kings of Britain
Wace: From Le Roman de Brut
Layamon: From Brut
THOMAS OF ENGLAND: Le Roman de Tristran
[The Deaths of Tristran and Ysolt]
**ANCRENE WISSE (Guide for Anchoresses)
*[The Sweetness and Pains of Enclosure]
*ROMANCE
MARIE DE FRANCE
*Milun
*Lanval
*Chevrefoil
*SIR ORFEO
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE
FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES
**SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
(ca. 1375–1400) translated by Simon Armitage
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343–1400)
The Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue
Summary: The Knight’s Tale
The Miller’s Prologue and Tale
The Prologue
The Tale
The Man of Law’s Epilogue
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
The Prologue
The Tale
The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale
The Introduction
The Prologue
The Tale
The Epilogue
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
[Close of Canterbury Tales]
The Parson’s Tale
The Introduction
Chaucer’s Retraction
Lyrics and Occasional Verse
Troilus’s Song
Truth
To His Scribe Adam
Complaint to His Purse
JOHN GOWER (ca. 1330–1408)
The Lover’s Confession
The Tale of Philomena and Tereus
*THOMAS HOCCLEVE (ca. 1367–1426)
*My Complainte
WILLIAM LANGLAND (ca. 1330–1387)
The Vision of Piers Plowman
The Prologue [The Field of Folk]
Passus 1 [The Treasure of Truth]
Passus 5 [Piers Plowman Shows the Way
to Saint Truth]
Passus 6 [The Plowing of Piers’s Half-Acre]
Passus 7 [Piers Hears Truth’s Pardon]
The C-Text [The Dreamer Meets
Conscience and Reason]
CHRIST’S HUMANITY
WILLIAM LANGLAND (ca. 1330–1387)
The Vision of Piers Plowman
Passus 18 [The Crucifixion and Harrowing
of Hell]
MIDDLE ENGLISH INCARNATION AND
CRUCIFIXION LYRICS
What is he, this lordling, that cometh from
the fight
Ye That Pasen by the Weye
Sunset on Calvary
I Sing of a Maiden
Adam Lay Bound
The Corpus Christi Carol
JULIAN OF NORWICH (1342–ca. 1416)
A Book of Showings
Chapter 3 [Julian’s Bodily Sickness and the
Wounds of Christ]
Chapter 4 [Christ’s Passion and
Incarnation]
Chapter 5 [All Creation as a Hazelnut]
Chapter 7 [Christ as Homely and
Courteous]
Chapter 27 [Sin Is Fitting]
Chapters 58, 59, 60, 61 [Jesus as Mother]
Chapter 86 [Christ’s Meaning]
MARGERY KEMPE (ca. 1373–1438)
The Book of Margery Kempe
Book 1.1 [The Birth of Her First Child and
Her First Vision]
Book 1.11 [Margery and Her Husband
Reach a Settlement]
Book 1.20 [Margery Sees the Host Flutter
at Mass]
Book 1.28 [Pilgrimage to Jerusalem]
Book 1.35–36 [Margery’s Marriage to and
Intimacy with Christ]
Book 1.60 [Margery’s Reaction to a Pietà]
Book 1.76 [Margery Nurses Her Husband
in His Old Age]
Book 1.79 [Margery’s Vision of the Passion
Sequence]
THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION
(ca. 1425)
MYSTERY PLAYS
The Wakefield Second Shepherds’ Play
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
*Fowles in the Frith
The Cuckoo Song
Alison
My Lief Is Faren in Londe
Western Wind
I Am of Ireland
SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca. 1405–1471)
Morte Darthur
[The Conspiracy against Lancelot and
Guinevere]
[War Breaks Out between Arthur and
Lancelot]
[The Death of Arthur]
[The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere]
ROBERT HENRYSON (ca. 1425–ca. 1500)
The Cock and the Fox
EVERYMAN (after 1485)
The Sixteenth Century
(1485–1603)
Introduction
Timeline
JOHN SKELTON (ca. 1460–1529)
Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale
With lullay, lullay, like a child
From The Tunning of Elinour Rumming
Secundus Passus
SIR THOMAS MORE (1478–1535)
Utopia
SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER (1503–1542)
The long love that in my thought doth harbor
Petrarch, Rima 140
Whoso list to hunt
Petrarch, Rima 190
Farewell, Love
I find no peace
Petrarch, Rima 134
My galley
Petrarch, Rima 189
Divers doth use
What vaileth truth?
