A Book of Middle English
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This revised edition takes account of suggestions and comments from reviewers and from those who have used the first edition all over the world. The main features of the second edition are the inclusion of etymologies in the glossary and the edition of three complete texts by Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls, The Reeve's Tale and The Prioress's Tale. Part One has been revised to cover English at the time of Chaucer, and suggestions for further reading have been updated throughout the book.
1Introducing Middle English32Pronouncing Middle English93Vocabulary144Inflexions195Syntax396Metre567From manuscript to printed text628Select bibliography65Note on treatment of texts74The Peterborough chronicle 113775The owl and the nightingale81Brut96Ancrene Wisse106Sir Orfeo112The cloud of unknowing132Piers Plowman141Patience162Sir Gawain and the Green Knight182Pearl202St. Erkenwald221Dialogue between a lord and a clerk235Confessio Amantis243Lyrics255The York play of the Crucifixion272The parliament of fowls283Troilus and Criseyde309The Reeve's tale328The Prioress's tale346
