Description: Reading English Verse in Manuscript c.1350-c.1500 (Oxford English Monographs) [Hardcover] Sawyer, Daniel Product Overview Reading English Verse in Manuscript, c.1350-c.1500 is the first book-length history of reading for later Middle English poetry. While much past work in the history of reading has revolved around marginalia, this book consults a wider range of evidence, from the weights of books in medieval bindings to relationships between rhyme and syntax. It combines literary-critical close readings, detailed case studies of particular surviving codices, and systematic manuscript surveys drawing on continental European traditions of quantitative codicology to demonstrate the variety, vitality, and formal concerns visible in the reading of verse in this period. The small- and large- scale formal features of poetry affected reading subtly but extensively, determining how readers might move through books and even shaping physical books themselves. Readers' responses to one formal feature, rhyme, meanwhile, evince a habitual but therefore deep-rooted formalism which can support and enhance close readings today. Reading English Verse in Manuscript sheds fresh light on poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, and Thomas Hoccleve, but also shows how their works were read in manuscript in the context of a much larger mass of anonymous poems that influenced canonical poems, in a pattern of mutual influence. Read more Details Publisher : Oxford University Press (July 21, 2020) Language : English Hardcover : 224 pages ISBN-10 : 0198857772 ISBN-13 : 78 Item Weight : 1.1 pounds Dimensions : 9.9 x 0.8 x 6.1 inches Best Sellers Rank: #6,029,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3,229 in English Literature #5,522 in Medieval Literary Criticism (Books) #6,282 in British & Irish Poetry #3,229 in English Literature #5,522 in Medieval Literary Criticism (Books) Stock Photos Please Note: All of our book listings use stock photos unless otherwise stated. Please read our descriptions for accurate conditions and editions, don't use the photos! Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.
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ISBN: 0198857772
ISBN10: 0198857772
ISBN13: 9780198857778
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Brand: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
GTIN: 09780198857778
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Reading English Verse in Manuscript C. 1350-C. 1500
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: General
Item Weight: 17.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Daniel Sawyer
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Length: 9.3 in
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
