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Tag Archives: Kemp Malone
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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in verse # 14 : the alliterative revival
Literary wayfaring in England did not end with the Norman Conquest in 1066. It forked, one fork following the lead of the French conquerors, the other the lead of the English conquered. Both of these were excursions into vulgar territory
Posted in In Verse, The Past through Literature, Thoughts on Language
Tagged A Literary History of England, Albert C. Baugh, Arthurian romances, Kemp Malone, Medieval English verse and prose -- in modernized versions, poetry, Roger Sherman Loomis, Rudolph Willard, the alliterative revival, verse
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