Modern Philology, Volume 4

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University of Chicago Press, 1907
Vols. 30-54 include 1932-1956 of "Victorian bibliography," prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America.

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Contents

E P HAMMOND On the Order of the Canterbury Tales Caxtons Two Editions
159
KARL YOUNG Chaucers Use of Boccaccios Filocolo
169
WARREN Some Features of Style in Early French Narrative Poetry Part I
179
FRED ALLISON HOWE The Authorship of The Birth of Merlin
205
RAYMOND WEEKS The Newly Discovered Chançun de Willame Part III
211
FR KLAEBER Studies in the Textual Interpretation of Beowulf Part I
235
W A NITZE A New Source of the Yvain
267
E E STOLL Shakespeare Marston and the Malcontent Type
281
E J DUBEDOUT Shakespeare et Voltaire Othello et Zaïre
305
J Q ADAMS JR Greenes Menaphon and The Thracian Wonder
317
LANE COOPER The Abyssinian Paradise in Coleridge and Milton
327
JOSSELYN JR An Obscure Passage in Dantes Purgatory
333
SCHOCH The Differences in the Middle English Romaunt of the Rose
339
EWALD FLÜGEL
343
K W TIBBALS Elements of Magic in the Romance of William of Palerne
355
MANLY The Lost Leaf of Piers the Plowman
359
J S P TATLOCK Chaucer and Dante
367
F B GUMMERE Primitive Poetry and the Ballad III
373
GEORGE B CHURCHILL The Relation of Drydens State of Innocence
381
B SHUMWAY IndoEuropean I and E in Germanic
385
F N ROBINSON A Note on the Sources of the Old Saxon Genesis
389
MAX BATT Carlyles Life of Schiller
391
F S BOAS Edward Grimeston Translator and SergeantatArms
395
B SHUMWAY The Moral Element in Gottfrieds Tristan und Isolde
396
RAYMOND WEEKS The Newly Discovered Chançun de Willame I
396
S N HAGEN Müspilli
397
W S GAUD The Authorship of Locrine
409
P S ALLEN The Origins of German Minnesang
411

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