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Middle English Verse Romances

by · 1966

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A valuable basic student edition illustrating the variety of subjects and narrative modes that engaged medieval storytellers and their audiences. The verse is made accessible by glossing on the page as well as by end glossary and each romance is prefaced with an introduction to its literary history and provenance.

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Audience
adult
Length
long · 408 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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