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Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century By: Richard Morris (1833-1894) |
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between marks. The book has been separated into six independent units, set off by
triple rows of asterisks: [1] Introductory Material
[2] The Pearl
[3] Cleanness
[4] Patience
[5] Glossarial Index (excluding Postscript)
[6] Collected Sidenotes (section added by transcriber: editor's
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Early English Alliterative Poems in the West Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
Edited From
The Unique Manuscript
British Museum MS. Cotton
Nero A. x by Richard Morris
Published for
THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY
by the
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
London New York Toronto
First Published 1864
Second Edition 1869
Reprinted (1869 Version) 1965
Original Series, No. 1 Originally Printed by Stephen Austin, Hertford
and now Reprinted Lithographically in Great Britain
at the University Press, Oxford
by Vivian Ridler, Printer to the University
CONTENTS [List added by transcriber. Items in brackets do not have headers in the
body text, but were treated as subsections for grouping footnotes.] Preface
[Introduction to The Pearl ]
[Introduction to Cleanness ]
[Introduction to Patience ]
[General Introduction]
Remarks Upon the Dialect and Grammar
Grammatical Details
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