The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 3English Association, 1923 - Electronic journals |
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ALLARDYCE NICOLL Andrew Marvell Anglo-Saxon Anthology appears Augustine Birrell authorship ballads Beowulf biography Blake's Cambridge chapter character Chaucer collection connexion contemporary criticism Crown 8vo deal dialect discusses dramatist E. K. Chambers edition editor eighteenth century Elizabethan drama English Association English Literature Erkenwald essay evidence GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN gives Humphrey Milford illustrations influence interesting Introduction J. C. Squire J. M. BARRIE John Johnson judgement Lady lecture letters Literary Supplement London Middle English Milton Miss Modern Language Review notes original Oxford University Press passage perhaps period Philology place-names play poems poet poet's poetic poetry points preface present writer printed Professor prose published reader reference reprint romantic Shakespeare Shakespearian Shelley Shelley's songs Sonnets Spenser spirit stage story student style suggested theatre Thomas tion tragedy translation verse volume W. W. GREG William Wordsworth written xxxvii
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Page 34 - THE MS. consists of a single folio volume in an oblong form1, written on parchment, for the most part in a peculiarly bold and firm hand, which from the numerous erasures would appear to be that of Ormin. A second hand appears to have been used in the marginal corrections and in the transcript of some of the inserted leaves ; a third in supplying the MS.
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