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Sixteen essays on aspects of Old and Middle English celebrating the career of Marie Borroff, the distinguished medievalist.
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The essays include studies of Old English language and early Anglo-Saxon scholarship, Middle English prosody and style, Chaucer, the Pearl-poet, Langland, and Gower. Many of them focus on the poetics and historical matrix of fourteenth-century literature, with special attention to its craft and style. M. TERESA TAVORMINA is Professor of English at Michigan State University; R.F. YEAGER is Professor of English Literature at the University of West Florida. Contributors: E.G. STANLEY, MELISSA M. FURROW, RALPH HANNA III, STEPHEN A. BARNEY, TRAUGOTT LAWLER, J.A. BURROW, ANNE HIGGINS, WARREN GINSBERG, M. TERESA TAVORMINA, H. MARSHALL LEICESTER, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, SHERRY L. REAMES, MARY J. CARRUTHERS, ELIZABETH D. KIRK, R.F. YEAGER, FRED C. ROBINSON
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