Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse
Pollard
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- Literary English
- Everyday expressions
- Advanced vocabulary
- Long sentence structures
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I should have preferred myself to re-write them in the educated spelling of their own period, which would offer no obstacle of any kind to a modern reader.
In any case I am sure that this is not the way to win new readers for our earlier literature.
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- PREFACESample
- INTRODUCTION
- JOHN LYDGATE (?). The Siege of Harfleur and the Battle of Agincourt 1415.
- F I N I S.
- Thomas Occleve, Clerk in the Office of the Privy Seal. The Letter of Cupid.
- The Ballad of Robin Hood. The first printed edition by Wynkyn de Worde, about 1510.
- English Carols.
- Unto the Christian Reader.
- [William of Thorpe's Preface.]
- [The Examination of sir William of Thorpe.]
- And hereafter followeth his Testament.
- On Translating the Bible.
- [From Trevisa's Translation of Higden's Polychronicon.]
- The Epistle of Sir John Trevisa, Chaplain unto Lord Thomas of Barkley, upon the translation of Polychronicon into our English tongue.
- The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy.
- Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers.
- Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae.
- Golden Legend.
- Caton (1483).
- Aesop. (1483).
- Second Edition. (1484).
- Malory's King Arthur. (1485).
- Eneydos (1490).
- [The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, from the Coventry Corpus Christi Plays.]
- [From John Skot's Editions, c. 1525.]
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