Old and Middle English Literature

The following bibliography is for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who desire a convenient guide to scholarship in the broader and more important areas of English literature and culture before 1525. The listing is necessarily selective, but every effort has been made to provide ample coverage of the major works and topics and adequate representation of minor ones. Anglo-Latin and Anglo-French writings, which are no less part of the literary product of England during this period than those in English, are given suitable recognition. Chaucer, the subject of a full bibliography in this series, is represented simply by a corporal's guard of major studies, many of which are relevant to the work of other writers of the period. The bulk of the items reflect American and British scholarship and criticism of the last thirty years or so. Some important studies in French and German are included, however, as well as Continental studies written in English. Except for a few important items the cut-off date is 1965.