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Moorman, Charles Wickliffe was born on May 24, 1925 in Cincinnati. Son of Charles Wickliffe and Marion Hawes (Bowmer) Moorman.
( This edition of the complete Works of Cotton Nero A.x.-...)
This edition of the complete Works of Cotton Nero A.x.---Patience, Purity, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight---is the first collected edition since the manuscript itself. Charles Moorman's hope is that this work will facilitate studies of the whole Gawain-Poet, in addition to those of his individual works. In addition, this edition should provide a basis for comparative study and aid in an evaluation of the poet's development. Designed for the professional scholar, the student, and the general reader with no training in Middle English, this edition brings together the tools for both introductory and advances study. Moorman has tried to make the text as readable, the notes as succinct and informative, and the glossary as useful as possible. The new reader will find before him everything necessary for a convenient first reading, and the scholar will see and appreciate the results of generations of scholarship. These four poems---two dramatic biblical narratives, an elegy, and a chivalric romance---are, next to the works of Chaucer, the finest poems of the fourteenth century, an age abounding in great literature. Their variety, their rich imagery, their depth of mood and feeling, and particularly their sensitive responsiveness to the moral dilemmas of human life make these poems an endless, if not wholly translatable, source of both despair and comfort. The Works of the Gawain-Poet presents a number of distictive features: a conservatively edited text; the original manuscript illustrations; apparatus, glosses, and notes on the page with the text; and a full introduction and bibliography. The book should prove useful both as a reading and reference edition and as a graduate text.
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(An Analysis of the Oxford Christians, Charles Williams, C...)
An Analysis of the Oxford Christians, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and by extension, T.S. Eliot, and Dorothy Sayers- as they relate to the image of St. Augustine's City of God. An interesting analysis of a fertile literary group; Hardcover with Jacket, 143pp.
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( This handy, compact, and authoritative volume provides ...)
This handy, compact, and authoritative volume provides readers and students with information about a multitude of Arthurian characters, places, themes, and topics from the first written records of early myths and legends through Sir Thomas Malory's epic Morte D'arthur.
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( This edition of the complete Works of Cotton Nero A.x.-...)
This edition of the complete Works of Cotton Nero A.x.---Patience, Purity, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight---is the first collected edition since the manuscript itself. Charles Moorman's hope is that this work will facilitate studies of the whole Gawain-Poet, in addition to those of his individual works. In addition, this edition should provide a basis for comparative study and aid in an evaluation of the poet's development. Designed for the professional scholar, the student, and the general reader with no training in Middle English, this edition brings together the tools for both introductory and advances study. Moorman has tried to make the text as readable, the notes as succinct and informative, and the glossary as useful as possible. The new reader will find before him everything necessary for a convenient first reading, and the scholar will see and appreciate the results of generations of scholarship. These four poems---two dramatic biblical narratives, an elegy, and a chivalric romance---are, next to the works of Chaucer, the finest poems of the fourteenth century, an age abounding in great literature. Their variety, their rich imagery, their depth of mood and feeling, and particularly their sensitive responsiveness to the moral dilemmas of human life make these poems an endless, if not wholly translatable, source of both despair and comfort. The Works of the Gawain-Poet presents a number of distictive features: a conservatively edited text; the original manuscript illustrations; apparatus, glosses, and notes on the page with the text; and a full introduction and bibliography. The book should prove useful both as a reading and reference edition and as a graduate text.
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(A guide for young scholars seeking to decipher and edit M...)
A guide for young scholars seeking to decipher and edit Middle English manuscripts. Includes tips for working with scribal handwriting, Middle English grammar, and textual criticism. Table of contents, acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, index. Dust jacket faded, edges foxed. xii, 107+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..
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(Beginning with a consideration of Malory's ingenious chro...)
Beginning with a consideration of Malory's ingenious chronology, this study shows that Malory achieved thematic and structural unity by selecting from the great mass of Arthurian legend three narrative strands―the intrigues of Lancelot and Guinevere, the Grail quest, and the feud between the houses of Lot and Pellinore―using these to illustrate a single theme―the rise, flowering, and downfall of an ideal civilization. This selection and use of diverse materials, Charles Moorman asserts, indicates clearly that Malory set to work with a preconceived plan and that he did achieve his purpose, to write the "haole book of Kyng Arthur."
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Moorman, Charles Wickliffe was born on May 24, 1925 in Cincinnati. Son of Charles Wickliffe and Marion Hawes (Bowmer) Moorman.
AB, Kenyon College, 1949. Master of Arts, Tulane University, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Tulane University, 1953.
Assistant professor English Auburn University, 1953-1954. Associate professor English University Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, 1954-1956, professor, chairman department English, 1956-1968, graduate dean, 1968-1969, university dean, 1969-1975, academy vice president, 1976-1981, Distinguished University professor and vice president academy affairs emeritus, since 1981.
(Beginning with a consideration of Malory's ingenious chro...)
( This handy, compact, and authoritative volume provides ...)
(A guide for young scholars seeking to decipher and edit M...)
(An Analysis of the Oxford Christians, Charles Williams, C...)
( This edition of the complete Works of Cotton Nero A.x.-...)
( This edition of the complete Works of Cotton Nero A.x.-...)
(Book by Moorman, Charles)
(Book by Moorman, Charles)
Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1945. Fellow Royal Society Arts. Member Modern Language Association American, Medieval Academy, International Arthurian Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Married Ruth Jean Glindmeyer, August 14, 1948 (divorced). Children– Charles Wickliffe, Joseph Randall. Married Barbara DeMarco Schurfranz, 1980.