Reading English Verse in Manuscript C.1350-C.1500

ISBN-13: 9780198857778 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str.

Daniel Sawyer

Opis

This history of reading for Middle English poetry combines close readings, detailed case studies of surviving codices, and systematic manuscript surveys to demonstrate the variety, vitality, and formal concerns visible in the reading of verse in this period.

Recenzje

It is remarkable that a monograph on such a fundamental issue had not been written before now. Students of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English literature are fortunate that it was Daniel Sawyer who wrote it.

O autorze

Daniel Sawyer is the Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medieval English at Merton College, Oxford. His research ranges across literary criticism, scholarly editing, and quantitative and qualitative codicology, all applied to English manuscripts and Middle English texts.