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in verse # 18 : a monstrous fable
Like many a medieval manuscript, Piers the plowman has no title as such. Walter W. Skeat, who gave it that title, notes, however, that, in the manuscript he used as the basis for his Oxford edition, “we find here [in … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse, Mormon LitCrit, The Past through Literature
Tagged a monstrous fable, Albert C. Baugh, allegory, Book of Mormon, fantasy, Herman Melville, Joseph Smith, Joseph's Myth, Kemp Malone, mimesis, mimetic & fantastic, Moby-Dick, Mormon Literature, outsider art, Piers the Plowman, poetry, Scott Hales, the alliterative revival, verse and prose, Walter W. Skeat
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