I’ve just published a new article in postmedieval! It describes how pirates informally reproduced Jack Spicer’s long poem The Holy Grail in the 1960s; along…
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I have a new article out in Pedagogy and Profession this week, ‘Writing a Teaching Book‘. In it, I think pragmatically back on the process…
Leave a CommentThe Times Literary Supplement recently carried a perceptive and generous short review of How to Read Middle English Poetry by Anthony Bale, who calls the book ‘accessible…
Leave a CommentI’ve just done the proofs for the first chapter in the collection Books, Readers, and Libraries in Fiction, edited by Karen Attar and Andrew Nash. My…
Leave a CommentI’m very happy to report that Oxford University Press have now published How to Read Middle English Poetry, and copies are beginning to arrive. It’ll…
Leave a CommentI have a new article out in Medium Ævum 92.2, titled ‘What Tongue does Chaucer’s Custance Speak? “Latyn corrupt” Revisited’. This article tackles the sense of…
Leave a CommentJust out from me in Textual Practice, ‘Manuscript Canonicity‘: an article exploring how manuscripts themselves can generate prestige in present-day scholarship. This article’s published open access!…
Leave a CommentHere’s the cover for How to Read Middle English Poetry! The image is part of Manchester, John Rylands Library, MS Eng. 1 (a copy of Lydgate’s…
Leave a CommentMy next book, How to Read Middle English Poetry, is now available for pre-order from Oxford University Press! Here’s the blurb: How to Read Middle English…
Leave a CommentI have just signed the contract for my second book, How to Read Middle English Poetry, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
How to Read explains, in clear, student-friendly terms, how to find, understand, and analyse English poetry 1150–1500, for study or pleasure. I built the book to be useful even if you don’t have a great library or anthology to hand. Where possible, the discussion uses poetry in the fine TEAMS-METS series, which all have stable print forms, but can be read for free online.
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