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Douglas Gray, ed.
The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose.

Published Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1985.
ISBN 019812452X;
ISBN-13: 9780198124528.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: 144×222×33mm.
Page count: xxi,586pp.
Main languages: Middle English texts with modern English apparatus.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is a little worn and yellowed; pages sagging slightly, with the edges rather grubby.


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Weight without packaging: 851g.

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Contains a generous selection of 15th- and early 16th-century English literature. Mostly short excerpts, but the texts of The Testament of Cresseid, Mankind, and Everyman are given in full.

Chapter headings: The mutability of worldly changes; Letters; Hoccleve; Lydgate; James I of Scotland (excerpt from Kingis Quair); Chaucerian poems; Religious prose; Philosophy & political theory in prose; Science & instruction; Scottish miscellany; Lyrics; Malory; Prose romances; Caxton; Mankind; Learning & education; Henryson; Dunbar; Gavin Douglas; Everyman; Nifles, trifles & merry jests; Skelton; Berners; Thomas More; Notes on grammar & spelling in the 15th‑c.


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