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Charles Dunn
The Changing English Language And Changing Literary Style

Album US 1959 on Folkways Records label
Spoken Word (Spoken Word, Education)

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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	Charles Dunn , album by, translated by, translated by, revised
	Gustave Doré , 1832-1883 FR illustration, from an engraving by
	Boëthius , text by, illustrated by translations of
	R. F. Weymouth , text by
	Rev. William Wye Smith , text by
	John Wyclif , translated by
	F. Mossé , text by, adapted by (text)
	J. A. Walker , translated by
	Unknown [West Saxon translator, 1000 A. D.] , translated by
	J. W. Bright , edited by, text
	H. F. Stewart , edited by, text
	E. K. Rand , edited by, text
	Queen Elizabeth I , 1533-1603 GB translated by
	C. Pemberton , edited by, text
	Geoffrey Chaucer , 1343-1400 GB translated by
	F. N. Robinson , edited by, text
	Alfred The Great , translated by
	King Alfred , translated by
	G. P. Krapp , edited by, text
	W. W. Skeat , edited by, text
	C. K. Ogden , text by
	William Caxton , text by
	A. W. Pollard , edited by, text
	Geoffrey of Monmouth , text by
	S. Evans , translated by
	Sir F. Madden , edited by, ed. trans.
	Layamon , translated by
	Anonymous bvoc, acg, text by
	A. Boyle , translated by
	E. Vinaver , edited by, text
	Thomas Malory , GB text by
	Alfred Lord Tennyson , 1809-1892 GB text by

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