9780810103276 | Northwestern Univ Pr, June 1, 1970, cover price $14.95 |
About this edition: This volume offers the complete text of a poem which, although an acknowledged masterpiece of medieval literature, makes abnormal demands upon the reader by reason of its subtle exploitation both of a difficult dialect of Middle English and of the special idiom of alliterative verse.
9780810103283 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, September 1, 1992), cover price $21.00 |
About this edition: This volume offers the complete text of a poem which, although an acknowledged masterpiece of medieval literature, makes abnormal demands upon the reader by reason of its subtle exploitation both of a difficult dialect of Middle English and of the special idiom of alliterative verse.