From Beowulf to Blake
Author | : Paul Robert Lieder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1036 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paul Robert Lieder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1036 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Robert Lieder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1122 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Sheba Blake Publishing |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2017-04-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 3961892253 |
Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative lines. The poem is set in Scandinavia. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland (Götaland in modern Sweden) and later becomes king of the Geats. After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants cremate his body and erect a tower on a headland in his memory. The main protagonist Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, king of the Danes, whose great hall, Heorot, is plagued by the monster Grendel. Beowulf kills Grendel with his bare hands and Grendel's mother with a giant's sword that he found in her lair. Later in his life, Beowulf becomes king of the Geats, and finds his realm terrorized by a dragon, some of whose treasure had been stolen from his hoard in a burial mound. He attacks the dragon with the help of his thegns or servants, but they do not succeed. Beowulf decides to follow the dragon to its lair at Earnanæs, but only his young Swedish relative Wiglaf, whose name means "remnant of valour",[a] dares to join him. Beowulf finally slays the dragon, but is mortally wounded in the struggle. He is cremated and a burial mound by the sea is erected in his honor. Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts.
Author | : Franklyn Bliss Snyder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 874 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Robert Lieder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781258236557 |
Contributing Authors Include William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron George Gordon, And Many Others.
Author | : Robert D. Fulk |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1991-03-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780253206398 |
Interpretations of Beowulf brings together over six decades of literary scholarship. Illustrating a variety of interpretative schools, the essays not only deal with most of the major issues of Beowulf criticism, including structure, style, genre, and theme, but also offer the sort of explanations of particular passages that are invaluable to a careful reading of a poem. This up-to-date collection of significant critical approaches fills a long-standing need for a companion volume for the study of the poem. Larger patterns in the history of Beowulf criticism are also traceable in the chronological order of the collection. The contributors are Theodore M. Andersson, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Jane Chance, Laurence N. de Looze, Margaret E. Goldsmith, Stanley B. Greenfield, Joseph Harris, Edward B. Irving, Jr., John Leyerle, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., M. B. McNamee, S. J., Bertha S. Phillpotts, John C. Pope, Richard N. Ringler, Geoffrey R. Russom, T. A. Shippey, and J. R. R. Tolkien.
Author | : Stanley Gardner |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2014-01-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472510135 |
This major work of historical and interpretative scholarship draws upon fresh evidence to set the Songs in a new perspective. Blake's etchings are substantially discussed alongside the poems they illustrate. The plates of both Innocence and Experience are considered in detail as Blake's response to social circumstances between 1782 and 1794. The reader is asked to re-think the nature of 'the Two Contrary States', and the relationship of the designs to the understanding of Blake.
Author | : Sheila A. Spector |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838754696 |
Traces the evolution of hebraic etymologies and mystical grammars as indicators of a profound shift in Blake's subjective consciousness from the earliest prose tracts, worked on before 1790, to the last years of his life, when he was still completing 'Jerusalem'.
Author | : Paul Robert Lieder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Scott Gwara |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2009-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047425022 |
Readers of Beowulf have noted inconsistencies in Beowulf's depiction, as either heroic or reckless. Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf resolves this tension by emphasizing Beowulf's identity as a foreign fighter seeking glory abroad. Such men resemble wreccan, "exiles" compelled to leave their homelands due to excessive violence. Beowulf may be potentially arrogant, therefore, but he learns prudence. This native wisdom highlights a king's duty to his warband, in expectation of Beowulf's future rule. The dragon fight later raises the same question of incompatible identities, hero versus king. In frequent reference to Greek epic and Icelandic saga, this revisionist approach to Beowulf offers new interpretations of flyting rhetoric, the custom of "men dying with their lord," and the poem's digressions.