The Index of Middle English Verse (Classic Reprint)
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The hope...)
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The hopes and plans of several years find their first fruition in the publication of this volume. For some time prior to 19 3 g a small group of interested scholars had discussed intermittently the problems in volved in making available to students certain types of labor-saving books - indexes, bibliographies, chronologies, concordances - which so markedly facilitate the work of research. From these discussions had emerged, by the summer of 1 9 39, the conviction that a new publishing society dedicated to the production of such books could perform a definite and valuable service to the world of scholarship.
The foundation of such a society, conceived under the shadow of a domestic financial depression, was destined to be achieved under the still deeper shadow of international war. Final decision to proceed with the organization of The Index Society and to call a meeting for its formal foundation was reached in mid-july. On the last day of August, when the Editorial Committee met in New York, the Germans were marching into Poland, the Bremen and Aquitania were fleeing New York harbor for home, and the world seemed falling apart. In January the Committee faced the new problems presented by the war and debated the wisdom of continuing with our plans. After consider ing all the factors involved, the Committee voted unanimously to pro ceed with our program.
In making this decision we were strengthened by heartening expres sions of interest and enthusiasm from numerous colleagues. We were also impressed by the enduring value to the whole scholarly world of certain manuscripts, notably that of A short-title Catalogue of Books, 1641 - 1700, which had already been made available for publication under the auspices of the Society. Continuation of our efforts seemed then, and seems still, an affirmation of our faith that there are certain unchanging values in a chaotic world.
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A Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse, Vol. 2: Index of First Lines and Index of Subjects and Titles (Classic Reprint)
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BM Addit. 39574 (the Wheatley Early XV cent. Purchased for the e.m. With aid of friends of the late Dr. Henry B. Wheatley, f.s.a. 18. a meditation on the Passion - 154 lines Ihesu pt haste me dere bought. an orison to the B. V. - gao lines Hayle bote of bale blissed qwene to sight so semely is noon sene. 125. in honor of St. John the Baptist - ten 14-line stanzas Blissed be thow Baptist borne 1, forth broght. 155. maydestone's version of the Seven Penitential Psalms - 115 8-line stanzas Lord in pi angir take me noght.
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A register of Middle English religious & didactic verse
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Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Vol. 35 (Classic Reprint)
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In will, in deed, Impulse of All to All Glory to Thee, Father of Earth and Heaven!
In the preface to the Ode on the Departed Y ear (17 96) the poet asserts that the Ode commences with an address to the Divine Providence, that regulates into one vast harmony all the events of time, however calamitous some of them appear to mortals.
Thus the principles of harmony, unity, and optimism, governed by the law of Necessity, furnish the chief intel lectual matter of these poems (17 94-17 They are all somewhat abstractly conceived, and their religion may be said to be a religion of opinion rather than of experience.
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The Index of Middle English Verse (Classic Reprint)
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The hopes...)
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The hopes and plans of several years find their first fruition in the publication of this volume. For some time prior to 19 3 g a small group of interested scholars had discussed intermittently the problems in volved in making available to students certain types of labor-saving books - indexes, bibliographies, chronologies, concordances - which so markedly facilitate the work of research. From these discussions had emerged, by the summer of 1 9 39, the conviction that a new publishing society dedicated to the production of such books could perform a definite and valuable service to the world of scholarship.
The foundation of such a society, conceived under the shadow of a domestic financial depression, was destined to be achieved under the still deeper shadow of international war. Final decision to proceed with the organization of The Index Society and to call a meeting for its formal foundation was reached in mid-july. On the last day of August, when the Editorial Committee met in New York, the Germans were marching into Poland, the Bremen and Aquitania were fleeing New York harbor for home, and the world seemed falling apart. In January the Committee faced the new problems presented by the war and debated the wisdom of continuing with our plans. After consider ing all the factors involved, the Committee voted unanimously to pro ceed with our program.
In making this decision we were strengthened by heartening expres sions of interest and enthusiasm from numerous colleagues. We were also impressed by the enduring value to the whole scholarly world of certain manuscripts, notably that of A short-title Catalogue of Books, 1641 - 1700, which had already been made available for publication under the auspices of the Society. Continuation of our efforts seemed then, and seems still, an affirmation of our faith that there are certain unchanging values in a chaotic world.
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Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1922, Vol. 37 (Classic Reprint)
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Elizabethan scholarship is well represented. R. G. Whigam and O. F. Emerson, Sonnet Structure in Sidney's Astrophel and Stella (sp), correct general misstatements and examine the various forms used. Miss Anne K. Tuell thinks that The Original End of Faerie Queene, Book III (m LN was what caused Burleigh's brow to wrinkle, and in a Note on Spenser's Clarion (ibid.) she again identifies Clarion with Spenser's epic muse. F. M. Padelford, The Virtue of Temperance in the Faerie Queene (sp), supple ments De Moss's paper by examining Spenser's dependence on Aristotle in the treatment of the virtue of Tem perance. Miss L. Whitney contributes a somewhat incon elusive paper on Spenser's Use of the Literature of Travel in the Faerie Queene (mp), but points out more specifically than had previously been done some parallels between the voyage of Sir Guyon and the legend of St. Brandan.
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A Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse, Vol. 1: List of Manuscripts (Classic Reprint)
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The order which has been followed in the List of Manuscripts needs no explanation except, perhaps, in the case of the Bodleian mss. Persons accustomed to the designation of these manuscripts according to their numbers in the several collections, Laud, Ashmole, Rawlinson, etc. May at first be disconcerted to find them here arranged according to their order in the Summary Catalogue. The adoption of the Summary Catalogue numbers was, however, inevitable, since these alone afford a general series embracing the whole of the Bodleian mss and since any system based upon the multitude of special collections would have resulted in an arrangement highly complicated and con fusing. With the publication of the earlier volumes of the Summary Catalogue, which may shortly be expected, these numbers will probably come to be used more and more in place of the others. In the Register the Summary Catalogue number is directly followed in each instance by the number assigned to the manuscript in the special collection to which it belongs, in order to facilitate identification with references found elsewhere.
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(A volume uniform with the two previously published, Engli...)
A volume uniform with the two previously published, English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century and Religion Lyrics of the XIVth Century. In covering the field of the fifteenth century the editor has been able to select from a wide range of unpublished literature. The anthology reveals the strength of religious lyrical poetry in a generally neglected period. Contents Include: Dialogues between the Blessed Virgin and Child - Marian Laments - Songs and Prayers to the Blessed Virgin - Hymns to the Trinity - Hymns to the God, the Father, Creator - Hymns and Prayers to Christ - Songs of the Annunciation - Songs of the Nativity - Songs for the Epiphany - Hymns and Songs of the Passion - Appeals to the Man from the Cross - Complaints of Christ - Easter Songs - Songs of the Eucharist - The Mysteries of the Faith - Occasional Prayers and Songs - Prayers to the Guardian Angel - Two Prayers by Lydgate Against the Pestilence - Songs of Penitence - Songs of Old Age - Songs of Mortality - Songs Against Fortune - Songs of the Decadence of Virtue - Songs Against Vices - Proverbs and Moral Sentences
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A Register of Middle English Religious & Didactic Verse: (V. 2) (1916-20)
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A Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse, Vol. 1: List of Manuscripts (Classic Reprint)
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The order which has been followed in the List of Manuscripts needs no explanation except, perhaps, in the case of the Bodleian mss. Persons accustomed to the designation of these manuscripts according to their numbers in the several collections, Laud, Ashmole, Rawlinson, etc. May at first be disconcerted to find them here arranged according to their order in the Summary Catalogue. The adoption of the Summary Catalogue numbers was, however, inevitable, since these alone afford a general series embracing the whole of the Bodleian mss and since any system based upon the multitude of special collections would have resulted in an arrangement highly complicated and con fusing. With the publication of the earlier volumes of the Summary Catalogue, which may shortly be expected, these numbers will probably come to be used more and more in place of the others. In the Register the Summary Catalogue number is directly followed in each instance by the number assigned to the manuscript in the special collection to which it belongs, in order to facilitate identification with references found elsewhere.
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A Register of Middle English Religious & Didactic Verse Volume 1
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A Register of Middle English Religious & Didactic Verse: (V. 1) (1916-20)
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A Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse, Vol. 2: Index of First Lines and Index of Subjects and Titles (Classic Reprint)
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BM Addit. 39574 (the Wheatley Early XV cent. Purchased for the e.m. With aid of friends of the late Dr. Henry B. Wheatley, f.s.a. 18. a meditation on the Passion - 154 lines Ihesu pt haste me dere bought. an orison to the B. V. - gao lines Hayle bote of bale blissed qwene to sight so semely is noon sene. 125. in honor of St. John the Baptist - ten 14-line stanzas Blissed be thow Baptist borne 1, forth broght. 155. maydestone's version of the Seven Penitential Psalms - 115 8-line stanzas Lord in pi angir take me noght.
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Carleton Brown was an American philologist and professor of English. He is noted for his service at the Mediaeval Academy of America and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as for his principal research of Middle English manuscripts and their treatment of religious themes.
Background
Carleton Brown was born on July 15, 1869 in Oberlin, Ohio, the elder of the two sons of Justus Newton Brown and Hattie Augusta (Sparhawk) Brown, both natives of Ohio. His middle name, which he early discarded, was Fairchild. His father, whose first American ancestor, Charles Brown, had emigrated from England to Rowley, Massachussets.
During his son's childhood he held Congregational pastorates in Talladega, Alabama (1874 - 75), Wilton, New Hampshire (1876 - 78), Charlotte, Michigan (1878 - 81), and Owatonna, Minnesota (1881 - 89).
Education
About 1648, Carleton Brown was a graduate of Oberlin College and, in 1871, of its theological seminary. Carleton attended Pillsbury Academy in Owatonna, a Baptist preparatory school, and Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he received the B. A. degree in 1888.
He received the Ph. D. degree in 1903 with a thesis on the English grammar schools before the Reformation. He then went to New York University, where he remained until his retirement in 1939 (at which time he was awarded an honorary LL. D. ).
Career
After working on two small-town newspapers (he was part-owner of one, the biweekly Salida Mail), Carleton Brown attended the Andover (Massachussets) Theological Seminary (1890 - 93) and in 1894 was ordained a Unitarian minister. He served at St. Cloud, Minnesota (1894 - 97), and at Helena, Montana (1897 - 1900), but in 1900 gave up the ministry for graduate study in English at Harvard.
Brown began his teaching career at Harvard, staying on as an instructor until 1905, when he moved to the English department at Bryn Mawr College. There he became associate professor in 1907 and professor in 1910. He spent four years (1916 - 20) at the University of Minnesota and, after a year at Oxford, England, returned to Bryn Mawr (1921 - 27).
The move to New York University had been spurred by its support of the Modern Language Association, of which Brown was secretary. Primarily a medievalist, "a scholar's scholar, " Carleton Brown devoted his principal research to Middle English manuscripts and their treatment of religious themes. His first book was A Study of the Miracle of Our Lady Told by Chaucer's Prioress (1910).
Later came A Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse, afterward revised and expanded, in collaboration with Prof. Rossell Hope Robbins, as The Index of Middle English Verse (1943), a work that listed some four thousand manuscripts, secular as well as religious. Brown compiled anthologies of thirteenth-, fourteenth-, and fifteenth-century lyrics (1932, 1924, and 1939 respectively).
In addition he edited several lesser texts: Venus and Adonis (1911); Poems by Sir John Salusbury and Robert Chester (1914), for the Early English Text Society; The Stonyhurst Pageants (1920); and The Pardoner's Tale (1935). Beginning in 1903 he regularly contributed articles and reviews, mainly on Chaucer and newly discovered texts, to journals such as Modern Language Notes, Modern Philology, and PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association).
As secretary, Brown was himself editor of PMLA, a sensitive post which enhanced his reputation among the productive scholars of America. Upon his resignation as secretary in 1934, the association resolved that it owed to Brown more than to anyone else its "immense increases in resources, service, and prestige. "
He was elected president in 1936. His half-time commitment to the Modern Language Association while at New York University somewhat limited his guidance of graduate students, but both there and at Bryn Mawr he encouraged the highest scholarly standards, and many of the dissertations written by his students are still consulted.
His comfortable but unostentatious house stood in a pleasant wooded section of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, which afforded a few trails where Brown could take his daily constitutional. He was ethically rigid, and sometimes out of sympathy with the changing attitudes of younger people, but his innate modesty is shown by his humility in realizing only belatedly that the volume ceremoniously presented to him in 1940 was not a gift for his library but a festschrift, a tribute from America's most distinguished medievalists.
Carleton Brown died at the age of seventy-one at Mountainside Hospital, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, of pulmonary edema owing to cardiac failure.
After Unitarian services, he was cremated at Rosehill Crematory, Linden, New Jersey, and the ashes were interred at Owatonna, Minnesota.
Achievements
Carleton Brown was honored by election as a fellow of the Mediaeval Academy of America and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A second major interest was the Modern Language Association of America, which Brown served as secretary from 1920 to 1934.
Under his aegis, the Central Division was reunited with the parent body, the meager capital funds increased eightfold, and the membership more than doubled. He enlarged the association's journal, PMLA, and launched new publishing projects, notably the New Shakespeare Variorum Series and the Middle English Dictionary.
In his religious affiliation Carleton Brown was a Unitarian and in 1894 he was ordained a Unitarian minister.
Membership
Carleton Brown was a member of the Modern Language Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Personality
Brown was a courteous man with strong convictions. Sometimes intransigent with department colleagues and with other scholars, he could at other times display great diplomatic skill. Though portly, he was physically strong, refusing to wear an overcoat in winter and capable, at seventy, of rowing for several hours under a hot sun.
Connections
Carleton Brown was first married to Emily Laura Truesdell of Owatonna, Minnesota, on June 7, 1893; their three children were Margery Lorraine, Wendell Edwards (who died in infancy), and Truesdell Sparhawk. After Emily's death in 1917, he married on August 13, 1918, (Elizabeth) Beatrice Daw of Athens, Pennsylvania, a young Bryn Mawr-trained medievalist nineteen years his junior. Their three children were Emily Parker Lawless, Beatrice Carleton (who died in childhood), and Carleton Justus.
