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title	:	The Alliterative Morte Arthure : The Owl and the Nightingale, and Five Other Middle English Poems in a Modernized Version, With Comments On the Poems and Notes
author	:	Gardner, John
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0809306484
print isbn13	:	9780809306480
ebook isbn13	:	9780585182346
language	:	English
subject	English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--Modernized versions, Arthurian romances.
publication date	:	1973
lcc	:	PR1203.G3 1973eb
ddc	:	821/.1/08
subject	:	English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--Modernized versions, Arthurian romances.

Page iii The Alliterative Morte Arthure The Owl and the Nightingale and Five other Middle English Poems in a Modernized Version with Comments on the Poems and Notes By John Gardner FEFFER & SIMONS, INC. London and Amsterdam

Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Morte Arthure. The alliterative Morte Arthure. (Arcturus books, AB116) CONTENTS: The alliterative Morte Arthure.Winner and waster.The parliament of the three ages. [Etc.] 1. English poetryMiddle English (Modernized) I. Gardner, John Champlin, 1933- ed. II. Title. [PR1203.G3 1973] 821.108 73-7728 ISBN 0-8093-0486-4 ISBN 0-8093-0648-4 (pbk.) Copyright 1971 by Southern Illinois University Press All rights reserved Arcturus Books Edition September 1973 This edition printed by offset lithography in the United States of America 98 97 96 95 9 8 7 6

Page v To Ken Morrow

Page vi ERRATUM Page 86, line 3266: For On the wheel was a chair of chalk-white hues; read On the wheel was a chair of chalk-white silver ADDENDUM Page 86, insert between lines 3266 and 3267: And checkered with carbuncles of changing hues;

Page vii Contents Preface ix The Alliterative Morte Arthure 3 Winner and Waster 117 The Parliament of the Three Ages 133 Summer Sunday 155 The Debate of Body and Soul 161 The Thrush and the Nightingale 177 The Owl and the Nightingale 185 Comments on the Poems 235 The Alliterative Morte Arthure 239 Winner and Waster 256 The Parliament of the Three Ages 262

Page viii Summer Sunday 263 The Debate of Body and Soul 264 The Thrush and the Nightingale 266 The Owl and the Nightingale 267 Notes 275

Page ix Preface This selection of Middle English poems is not meant to be representative of Middle English poetry in general. I have chosen poems (in most cases) which have real literary value and are so hard to read in the original that they are not as well known as they deserve to be. Another control on my selection is my object of presenting the poems as poetry. I do include one patently inferior poem, The Thrush and the Nightingale, because it throws light on The Owl and the Nightingale. The poems brought together here do reflect a variety of medieval English ways of thinking and feeling. The neglected masterpiece Morte Arthure is the only "heroic romance" in Middle Englishin other words, it is a poem in (roughly) the same genre as the French

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