The Changing English Language And Changing Literary Style

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Release Date: 1959

Label: Folkways Records

Original Folkways edition

Includes 8 page booklet of notes. (note - tracks A16 & A17 and A18 & A19 are switched on the labels, but are correctly identified in the booklet, pgs.5-6)

Scotland-born professor Charles W. Dunn (1915–2006) recites multiple interpretations of various literary passages, psalms, hymns, and legends in three chronological versions of the English language: Old, Middle, and Early Modern. Dunn concludes the album by retelling portions of the legend of King Arthur, Guinevere, and the Knights of the Round Table in different versions of English. He begins with a 12th-century Latin translation of “Arthur’s Feast at Caerleon,” and ends with a Modern English retelling of King Arthur’s demise. Background information and complete transcripts for all tracks are included in the liner notes.

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