Lydgates Temple Of Glas Classic Reprint

Author : André Courmont
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ISBN 13 : 9781330505526
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book Faculte Des Lettres written by André Courmont and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Faculte Des Lettres: Studies on Lydgate's Syntax in the Temple of Glas I purpose in the ensuing studies to make The Temple of Glas, a poem in five-beat lines, written about 1403 by John Lydgate, the object of a detailed syntactical inquiry. No work has hitherto appeared on Lydgate's syntax, though his conspicuous position at the entrance of the great transition century which followed Chaucer, marks him out as an excellent guide to the state of the English language at one of its most critical turning-points. The Temple of Glas besides, was peculiarly suitable for philological research, because it has been edited for the Early English d104 Society by Dr Schick, in a most thoroughgoing manner. Seven Mss and five printed editions of this text are known, ranging approximately from 1403-4 to a few years beyond 1500: Dr Schick, selecting the earliest Ms. as the basis of his edition, gives at the foot of each page a list of all the variants gathered from subsequent copies, manuscript and printed. I feel bound to acknowledge thankfully that this has been of great use to me in tracing the history of syntactical facts through the xvth century, and I would insist a little on the value of these variants. Scribes and printers' revisers of the time had not the least share of that care and respect for their original which are considered now to be the chief qualifications of an able editor; they on the contrary thought it their duty to remove whatever struck them as antiquated or, to describe their probable feeling more accurately perhaps, as bad English, for it seems they looked upon old readings rather in the light of blunders. 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.