Three alliterative saints' hymns
Subtitle: late Middle English stanzaic poems
By: edited by Ruth Kennedy.
Contributors: Kennedy, Ruth, Dr.
Series: Early English Text Society original series -- 321; Early English Text Society (Series) -- no. 321.
Publisher: Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng; enm
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
Description: "This edition presents the three extant texts of a largely unrecognised genre in Middle English verse: odes to saints written in strong-stress metre in fourteen-line stanzas. These hymns were composed in the North and East Midlands in around 1400. This is the first edition of these linguistically difficult, 'knotty', poems-- for many years they were previously edited separately: in 1907 (re-edited, 1937), 1889 and 1921. The new edition takes account of recent scholarship on the Middle English alliterative verse tradition, and includes full discussion of the three poems' hagiographical and historical context."--Page [2] Book Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [25]-95).
Table of contents: title: The alliterative Katherine Hymn / by Richard Spalding (Bodleian Library ms Bodley rolls 22); title: The alliterative John Evangelist Hymn (Lincoln Cathedral Library ms 91); title: The alliterative John Baptist Hymn (British Library additional ms 39574).