The Owl And The Nightingale, Cleanness, St Erkenwald by Unknown, Brian Stone

The Owl And The Nightingale, Cleanness, St Erkenwald

Unknown, Brian Stone

272 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, perhaps the best saint's legend, tells how a bishop of london raised a pagan judge from...

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