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John Scattergood (Ed.) - The Complete English Poems of John Skelton - 9781846319488 - V9781846319488
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The Complete English Poems of John Skelton

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Description for The Complete English Poems of John Skelton Paperback. John Scattergood's The Complete English Poems of John Skelton (Penguin, 1983) has long been out of print, and at present no other complete edition of the poems is available. This welcome new edition brings together the poems, and many of the Latin paratexts, along with an entirely new introduction and updated reading list and notes. Editor(s): Scattergood, John. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 580 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 38. Weight in Grams: 830.
John Scattergood's 'The Complete English Poems of John Skelton', originally published in 1983 and long out of print, was the leading academic edition with comprehensive notes. Students are currently limited to searching for Skelton's poems in anthologies. This new, revised edition contains the poems, accompanied by around 150 pages of revised notes. There is an entirely new introduction, covering all developments in Skelton scholarship since the early 1980's, and an updated reading list. Scattergood also reproduces much of the Latin paratexts, considered by readers to be so essential to Skelton - and therefore to scholars of his work. Reviews of previous edition: 'Skelton's greatest poems are learned, difficult, allusive, multilingual, intensely self-conscious and self-reflexive. With their verbal play and many-layered meaning they demand careful and repeated reading; and the most important reason why Skelton's reputation [...] does not correspond to the reality of his work is that there has been no complete edition of the authentic text of his poems since that of Alexander Dyce in 1843. [...] Scattergood's is a splendid achievement: it must be the product of many years of learned and intelligent labour, and it is likely to be the standard edition of Skelton for many years to come.' The Cambridge Review '[Skelton] sits in an awkward historical corner beween the regular "middle ages" and the Shakespeare epoch; and is not nearly well-enough known today. Splendid then, to have [...] this new, complete edition of his works with both the original spellings and explanatory notes, indeed the only such edition since 1843.' The Morning Star

Product Details

Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Condition
New
Weight
883g
Number of Pages
580
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846319488
SKU
V9781846319488
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About John Scattergood (Ed.)
Professor John Scattergood was appointed to Trinity College in 1980 as the Foundation Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature in the Department of English. Professor Scattergood retired from full time employment in Trinity in 2006 but continues his involvement in College. He contributes to the Master’s degree in Medieval Language, Literature and Culture, and continues to write and research. He was elected Pro-Chancellor of the University in 2008, when he was also a Senior Visiting Research Fellow in Merton College, Oxford.

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