The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

This is a recommended text for a course which I haven't yet started, Will provide a review when I have completed the course but it does seem to be a excellent text.

This version is exactly what I required, found it easy to read and understand it fulfilled all my course requirements.

Good textbook giving comprehensive over view of main genres.

The worst kind of modern academic work on literature contains the following features: banality of thought combined with conformity to the latest theoretical nonsense; inability to express the simplest idea in clear English; pretentiousness; and disguising mediocrity of thought and argumentation in obscure terminology. This volume has all these features aplenty. As a bonus, (and a typical sign of the times) CUP has not chosen to pay for a copy editor and the resulting book has well over a hundred serious typos (often the insertion of stray extra words.) Editor Scanlon ought to lose his academic post for this outrage.