Literary & textual criticism; early English in the world; codicology
The Review of English Studies has just published my latest article, ‘Verse-Craft, Editing, and the Work: Shadows of Orfeo‘. In it, I explore what potential the concept of the work has to help us in understanding early English material which exists in multiple witnesses, using Orfeo as my example and attention to the craft of verse as my method.
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I have, as a side project, drafted a teaching book: a guide for students to help with the close reading of Middle English and Older Scots poetry. It is provisionally called How to Read Middle English and Older Scots Poetry.
Leave a CommentI recently published a note. The specific new discovery that it reports is not going to rejig the landscape of scholarship. By remarking on the previusly unrecorded appearance of a rhyming proverb in Bodleian Library MS Digby 99 the note alters our understanding of the textual and geographical affiliations of Balliol College, MS 354 (available online here), the so-called ‘commonplace book’ of Richard Hill.
But I make a broader point in my conclusion. In work on Middle English verse we rely on a set of indexes to keep track of what is what and where:
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