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Article: Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry, ed. O. S. Pickering (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), xii + 227 pp. ISBN 0-85991-424-0. 39.50 [pounds sterling]. With a shared and avowed desire to eschew `theoretical, socio-historical and bibliographical approaches' to literature, the contributors to this volume offer close textual analyses of a range of under-studied and/or under-appreciated Middle English poetic works: The Owl and the Nightingale (Alexandra Barratt); Cursor mundi (John J. Thompson); early Middle English love lyrics (Karl ...