Tag Archives: the alliterative revival

in verse # 18 : a monstrous fable

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Dennis Clark

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 →

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in verse # 17 : a fair field full of folk

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Dennis Clark

I could hardly call my younger self a political junkie, and I would never claim that I had a sophisticate’s understanding of poetry in elementary school.  I tried, and tried again, as often as I could, to understand how poems … Continue reading →

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in verse # 14 : the alliterative revival

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Dennis Clark

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

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