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

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.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: 'Diverse folk diversely they deemed'


• 2: Navigating


• 3: Handling


• 4: Rhyming


• 5: Wider Reading

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Additional text

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.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Sawyer, Daniel (Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medie Sawyer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2020
• EAN: 9780198857778
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885777-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets