A Mediæval Anthology
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A Mediæval Anthology: Being Lyrics and Other Short Poems, Chiefly Religious This little book is a popular anthology. All the poems in it have been modernized, for the book has to be a first introduction to the riches of the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, for readers who know no Old nor Middle English. The oldest poems have had to be translated. In doing this I have endeavoured to use chiefly such words as were in our language at the date at which the poem was written, and to use them only in the sense in which they were used in those days. Where a line is not an exact rendering of the original I have notified the fact. Where reconstruction of a line could be avoided by retention of one or two old words I have retained them, and put their meaning in a footnote. Where a final e was clearly meant to be sounded, I have kept it where the metre of the modernized version needed it, though I have unfortunately been unable to make the use of this e uniform; it is not uniform in the later originals. A sounded e I have written thus: e. My chief aim has been to keep the spirit and character of these poems, whilst making it possible for modern readers to understand them. Some of the lines in these poems do not scan, but I have generally thought it better to leave them as they were, so long as they were intelligible, than to paraphrase them or to insert adverbs and adjectives solely for the sake of the metre. 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.
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