By Hannah Crawforth
ISBN-10: 1107041767
ISBN-13: 9781107041769
How did authors comparable to Jonson, Spenser, Donne and Milton take into consideration the prior lives of the phrases they used? Hannah Crawforth indicates how early sleek writers have been acutely attuned to the non secular and political implications of the etymology of English phrases. She argues that those lexically astute writers actively engaged with the lexicographers, Anglo-Saxonists and etymologists who have been conducting a countrywide venture to get better, or invent, the origins of English, at a time while the query of a countrywide vernacular used to be inseparable from that of nationwide identification. English phrases are deployed to specific impact - as a polemical weapon, allegorical equipment, coded type of conversation, form of ancient allusion or political instrument. Drawing jointly early glossy literature and linguistics, Crawforth argues that the historical past of English because it used to be studied within the interval appreciably underpins the writing of its maximum poets.
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E. K. 16). 16). I would like to begin by suggesting that we might be able to comprehend this seemingly irrec oncilable contradiction if we recognize that both E. , in his Epistle, and Spenser, in his poem, in fact look beyond Chaucer to the Anglo-Saxon roots of English. Strangers to our own mother tongue We know Spenser to have been familiar with one key text in the emerging field of Old English studies that explicitly connects the deterioration of the church under Catholicism with the issue of poor linguistic knowledge amongst clerics.
42 Spenser lends the word ‘borrow’ new life here, reani mating it through renewed contact with its Old English roots, and reveal ing the unfamiliar meaning that has in fact been present within the term all along. 44 The word originally signified a tithing, a group of ten householders who participate together in an ancient English system of rural justice known as ‘frank-pledge’, in which each member is responsible for the actions of the others. Spenser was intimately familiar with the Anglo-Saxon system of ‘frank-pledge’, which he explains in detail 41 Foxe, Gospels, Avv.
41 The Elizabethan Church has become estranged from these roots, which it now fails to recognize. Piers believes that late-Medieval Catholicism has brought religion in England to this degenerate state: ‘This was the first sourse of shepheards sorowe,’ he continues, ‘That now nill be quitt with baile, nor borrowe’ (‘Maye’, ll. 130–1). E. ’s glossing of the term as ‘pledge or suretie’, suggests the word ‘borrow’ is used in an archaic sense here (‘Maye’, l. 131, gloss). Whilst the word was current in 1579, and had been throughout the Middle English period, E.
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