The Owl and the Nightingale, Cleanness, and St. Erkenwald by Unknown, Brian Stone

The Owl and the Nightingale, Cleanness, and St. Erkenwald

Unknown, Brian Stone

264 pages first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry reflective medium-paced

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The Middle English poems in this book exemplify three major genres in medieval religious writing: saint's legend, Bible epic and religious debate. "St Erkenwald" tells how a bishop of London raised a pagan judge from the dead and sent his soul to ...

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