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A Book of Middle English | 
 enlarge | Authors: J A Burrow, Thorlac Turvillepetre
Publisher: WileyBlackwell
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 243379
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Pages: 373
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0631193537
Dewey Decimal Number: 427.02
EAN: 9780631193531
ASIN: 0631193537
Publication Date: December 20, 1995
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 Studied text March 14, 2003
Catherine Lamin
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
I studied this text as the core for my module on middle english language as part of my degree, although turville-petre offers some good information about dialect and other linguistic aspects in his introduction, some of the selections of excerpts from texts are quite week and I felt it would have been better had he chosen more dynamic sections which exmplify the pieces rather than just the opening lines, especially with pieces such as Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
 A good textbook December 2, 2002
B. Tovey (Oxford, UK)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a good selection of texts, accessibly presented with introductions to each text, footnotes for difficult passages and a glossary. Not so much a book for straight reading as for learning the essentials of reading Middle English literature from early texts such as "Ancrene Wisse" to later ones by Chaucer and other writers. My only complaint is that the glossary is a bit arbitrary - it seems that if the editors consider a word in a text is similar to a Modern English word, they don't include it in the glossary, even if they do include a word with the same spelling but a different meaning - this can cause difficulties in translating and understanding some sections of the texts. On the whole though, a good buy.
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