Essays and Explorations: Studies in Ideas, Language, and Literature

Preface
I. History of Ideas
1. The Origin of the Concept of the Seven Cardinal Sins (1941)
2. Chaucer’s Sense of History (1952)
3. Some Reflections on the Medieval Idea of Perfection (1957)
II. Approaches to Medieval Literature
4. Understanding Old English Poetry (1968)
5. Symbolism in Medieval Literature (1958)
6. Episodic Motivation and Marvels in Epic and Romance
III. Chaucer and Fourteenth-Century English Literature
7. \'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\': An Appraisal (1961)
8. \'Piers Plowman\' as a Fourteenth-Century Apocalypse (1961)
9. Authenticating Realism and the Realism of Chaucer (1964)
10. Distance and Predestination in \'Troilus and Criseyde\' (1957)
IV. Language and Linguistics
11. Canadian English and Its Relation to Eighteenth-Century American Speech (1948)
12. Final Root-forming Morphemes (1953)
13. A Grammatical Approach to Personification Allegory (1963)
14. The Syncategorematic in Poetry: From Semantics to Syntactics (1967)
V. Essay-Reviews
15. Kenneth Sisam, \'The Structure of Beowulf\' (1966)
16. Nevill Coghill, \'The Pardon of Piers Plowman\' (1947)
17. D. W. Robertson and Bernard F. Huppé, \'Piers Plowman and Scriptural Tradition\' (1952)
18. Sanford B. Meech, \'Design in Chaucer’s \'Troilus\'\' (1959–60)
Index