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

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

Unknown with Brian Stone

264 pages paperback 1971

6 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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