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标题：Priscilla Bawcutt and Janet Hadley Williams, eds., Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry
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作者：Douglas W. Hayes
期刊名称：Scottish Tradition
印刷版ISSN：0703-1580
出版年度：2009
卷号：34
出版社：Scottish Studies Foundation
摘要：Simply put, this is the most important essay collection on early Scottish poetry published in recent years. It is, however, more than that. A Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry lives up to its title in that it is truly a companion for anyone wanting more insight into his or her reading of the poetry of medieval Scotland. Few ‘companions’ or ‘introductions’ to fields of study adequately meet the needs of the diverse readerships they address: scholars working in the particular area who want access to the latest findings, graduate students wanting to familiarize themselves with a field of study, undergraduates looking for a good reference for an essay, and, no less impor- tantly, the general reader who just wants to know more about a subject of interest. This is especially the case when the book is an essay collection rather than the work of a single author; a collection’s editors have to work very hard to ensure that the work stays coherently unified while balancing the con - tributions that each essay brings to the whole. This is no small job.