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Book contract: How to Read Middle English Poetry

I 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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Published: Verse-Craft, Editing, and the Work

The unbeginning of Orfeo in one copy: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 19.2.1, f. 300r.

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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