Wynnere and Wastoure

ISBN-13: 9780197222997 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 66 str.

Stephanie Trigg

Opis

This edition of the fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative poem "Wynnere and Wastoure" provides a highly useful introduction to the manuscript discussing in detail its date, provenance, and metre. In addition, it offers a concise summary, criticism, a bibliography, a commentary, glossary, and an index of names.

Recenzje

`Trigg reviews the important critical studies, with shrewed observations about the methodologies applied to such matters as dating the poem. ... she is able to offer some positively new readings and a good new glossary.' Karen Hodder, The Modern Language Review