When Evensong and Morrowsong Accord: Three Essays on the Proverb

by Bartlett Jere Whiting

Bartlett Jere Whiting, a pioneer and acknowledged master of the lexicography of proverbs, also wrote three seminal articles on general and theoretical aspects of paremiology, the study of proverbs and related speech forms: "The Origin of the Proverb," "The Nature of the Proverb," and "The Study of Proverbs." On the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, friends, students, and colleagues from the Harvard English Department, Whiting's academic home...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674951093
• ISBN13: 9780674951099
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Department of English
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"