Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue

ISBN-13: 9780197223178 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 218 str.

J. A. Burrow; Thomas Hoccleve

Opis

Thomas Hoccleve's Series, written c.1420 was edited for EETS in 1892. This is a new edition of the first two sections and glosses the poems more fully than before. The introduction presents new findings about Hoccleve, whose poems have attracted much attention in recent years.

Recenzje

The scrupulous painstakingness with which Burrow has gone about his textual task and the equally scrupulous honesty with which he draws our attention to the limits of what can be done by way of reconstruction still constitute find models for textual scholarship. And text is not all - the introduction, notes, and excursuses of this edition are informative across a much wider range