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This is an excellent, comprehensive, and warmly approachable guide to the reading of Middle English poetry. I will recommend it to all my students, and would extend that recommendation to anyone interested in the poetry of any period. * Laura Ashe, English Studies * Daniel Sawyer's rigorous and instructive new book seeks to turn reading Middle English and Scots poetry into a learnable ""craft"" ... a hugely useful set of appendices and glossaries ... How to Read Middle English Poetry is accessible and welcoming, emphasizing throughout that we are all always learning how to read. * Anthony Bale, TLS *

This is an excellent, comprehensive, and warmly approachable guide to the reading of Middle English poetry. I will recommend it to all my students, and would extend that recommendation to anyone interested in the poetry of any period. * Laura Ashe, English Studies *

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Daniel Sawyer is Departmental Lecturer in English Literature and Manuscript Studies at the University of Oxford. He read English at Queen Mary, University of London, and studied for his MSt and DPhil in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford. He has held fellowships at the Huntington Library in California, and at Corpus Christi College, Merton College, and St Hilda's College, Oxford. He has spent more than a decade teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Old and Middle English literature; his research interests range across early manuscripts, editing, and the history of poetry seen in long perspective.

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