Three Alliterative Saints' Hymns: Late Middle English Stanzaic Poems (Early English Text Society Original Series) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Three Alliterative Saints' Hymns: Late Middle English Stanzaic Poems (Early English Text Society Original Series) Book

This edition presents the three extant texts of a largely unrecognised genre in Middle English verse: odes to saints written in strong-stress metre in fourteen-line stanzas. These hymns were composed in the North and East Midlands in around 1400. This is the first edition of these linguistically difficult, 'knotty', poems for many years: they were previously edited separately in 1907 (re-edited, 1937), 1889 and 1921. The new edition takes account of recent scholarship on the Middle English alliterative verse tradition, and includes full discussion of the three poems' hagiographical and historical context.Read More

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  • 0197223249
  • 9780197223246
  • 1 January 2003
  • Early English Text Society
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 230
  • First Edition
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