Essays on a range of distinctive Middle English texts outside the usual taught canon which make a valuable contribution to a broader overview. This new collection of essays is devoted to Middle English poems and poets whose considerable literary achievements are overshadowed by the more usual works of the present-day taught canon. Eight of the twelve essays focus on single texts: The Owl and the Nightingale, The Cursor Mundi, The Simonie, the lyric "Ne mai no lewed lued" from MS Harley 2253, The Siege of Jerusalem, St ...
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Essays on a range of distinctive Middle English texts outside the usual taught canon which make a valuable contribution to a broader overview. This new collection of essays is devoted to Middle English poems and poets whose considerable literary achievements are overshadowed by the more usual works of the present-day taught canon. Eight of the twelve essays focus on single texts: The Owl and the Nightingale, The Cursor Mundi, The Simonie, the lyric "Ne mai no lewed lued" from MS Harley 2253, The Siege of Jerusalem, St Erkenwald, The Castle of Perseverance and the N-Town Cycle's Mary Play. The remaining four are devoted to early Middle English love lyrics, fourteenth-century stanzaic religious poems, late Middle English religious lyrics and the plays of the Wakefield Master. The overall theme of the book is how the poetry in question is distinctive and outstanding, rather than representative. Approaches range from the literary-historical placing of poems in terms of genre to detailed studies of poetic method and technique. Theaim is to increase an appreciation of the qualities of under-rated poetry, and to bring out the individual achievement of the writers concerned; the essays also demonstrate how the expression of individual creative skill is oftendependent upon pre-existing traditions. Dr O.S. PICKERING is Associate Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds, where he is a member of the senior staff of the University Library. Contributors: ALEXANDRA BARRATT, JOHN J. THOMPSON, KARL REICHL, DEREK PEARSALL, THORLAC TURVILLE-PETRE, O.S. PICKERING, DAVID LAWTON, JOHN BURROW, JULIA BOFFEY, AVRIL HENRY, MYRA STOKES, PETER MEREDITH Dr O.S. PICKERING is Associate Lecturerin English at the University of Leeds, where he is a member of the senior staff of the University Library. Contributors: ALEXANDRA BARRATT, JOHN J. THOMPSON, KARL REICHL, DEREK PEARSALL, THORLAC TURVILLE-PETRE, O.S. PICK
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Very Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hardcover 1997 edition. Ex-library book with stamps and labels attached. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. Covers and text in very good condition. [xi, 227 p.; 25 cm]
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