Author : George Harley McKnight
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333907174
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Book Synopsis Middle English Humorous Tales in Verse (Classic Reprint) by : George Harley McKnight
Download or read book Middle English Humorous Tales in Verse (Classic Reprint) written by George Harley McKnight and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Middle English Humorous Tales in Verse I wish it were possible more fully to share the pleasures of the chase enjoyed in tracing the courses followed by these three stories. The hunt for sources and parallels has led, now into arid compilations like those by John of Bromyard and Vincent of Beauvais, again into the midst of the luxuriant oriental fictions of Nachshebi and Soma deva, again among the fresh folk-tales of Saxon, Breton, Finn, Berber, and American Negro. I realize that the pleasures of the hunt are not easily communicable, but it is my hope that some of the trophies of the hunt, mounted and arranged in the introduction to this volume, may have a scientific value. In the texts of the present volume the capitalization and the punctuation are modern, except in the case of proper names, in which the manuscript form has been reproduced. Abbreviations also have been expanded. In other respects it has been my aim to reproduce the manuscript textsvi i5am. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.