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Some Anthologies:

• Bennett, J. A. W. and G. V. Smithers (Eds.). Early Middle English Verse and Prose. 2nd ed. London 1968.
• Bergner, Heinz (Ed.). Die englische Literatur in Text und Darstellung: Bd. 1 Mittelalter. Stuttgart 1986.
• Burrow, John (Ed.). English Verse 1300 to 1500. London 1977.
• Burrow, J. A. and Thorlac Turville-Petre. A Book of Middle English. 2nd ed., Oxford 1996.
• Gray, Douglas (Ed.). The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse & Prose. Oxford 1985.
• Kaiser, Rolf (Ed.). Medieval English: An Old and Middle English Anthology. Berlin 1961.
• Mossé, Fernand. A Handbook of Middle English, transl. by James A. Walker. Baltimore 1966.
• Pearsall, Derek (Ed.) Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in  English 1375-1575. Oxford 1999.
• Sisam, Celia and Kenneth (Eds.). The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse. Oxford 1970.
• Traherne, Elaine (Ed.). Old and Middle English: An Anthology. Oxford 2000.
• Trapp, J. B. (Ed.). Medieval English Literature. Oxford 1973.
• Walker, Greg (Ed.). Medieval Drama: An Anthology. Oxford 2000.

Some Introductions:

• Burrow, John A. Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and its Background 1100-1500. Oxford 1982.
• Kohl, Stephan. "Mittelenglische Literatur," in: Englische Literaturgeschichte, hg. v. Hans Ulrich Seeber. Stuttgart 1991:19-42.
• Lexikon des Mittelalters. München/Zürich 1980ff. [Einträge s.v. 'Englische Literatur' und 'Mittelenglische Literatur'].
• Sanders, Andrew. The Short History of English Literature. Oxford 1994:28-82.