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Author | : Paul Cavill |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859915410 |
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A study of maxims - what they are, why and when they are used - based on detailed investigation of issues, texts and formulas.
Author | : Louis Jerome Rodrigues |
Publisher | : Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Download Anglo-Saxon verse charms, maxims & heroic legends Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : T. A. Shippey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Russell Gilbert Poole |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859915304 |
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Bibliography and guide to scholarly literature on the genre of Old English wisdom poetry. Wisdom literature played a crucial role in the evolution of traditional societies, contributing to the structure of society and to the acceptance of new ideas within a culture, a function that has become increasingly understood. Old English wisdom literature is the focus of this volume, which offers an bibliography of the scholarly criticism between 1800 and 1990 of a group of largely secular poems comprising the metrical Charms, The Fortunes of Men, The Gifts of Men, Homiletic Fragments I and II, Maxims I and II, The Order of the World, Precepts, the metrical Proverbs, the Riddles of the Exeter Book, the Rune Poem, Solomon and Saturn, and Vainglory. A General Introduction investigates debates between scholars and establishes overall trends; it is followed by the bibliography proper, divided into chapters, each with its own introduction, focusing on a major text or collection of texts, with entries arranged chronologically. Dr RUSSELL POOLEteaches in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University, New Zealand.
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Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 1248 |
Release | : 2017-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0812293215 |
Download The Complete Old English Poems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve, who carries "a sumptuous secret in her hands / And a tempting truth hidden in her heart," to the trust of Noah who builds "a sea-floater, a wave-walking / Ocean-home with rooms for all creatures," the world of the Anglo-Saxon poets is a place of harshness, beauty, and wonder. Now for the first time, the entire Old English poetic corpus—including poems and fragments discovered only within the past fifty years—is rendered into modern strong-stress, alliterative verse in a masterful translation by Craig Williamson. Accompanied by an introduction by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on the literary scope and vision of these timeless poems and Williamson's own introductions to the individual works and his essay on translating Old English poetry, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead-hall, to share a herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation or a people's sorrow at the death of a beloved king, to be present at the clash of battle or to puzzle over the sacred and profane answers to riddles posed over a thousand years ago. This is poetry as stunning in its vitality as it is true to its sources. Were Williamson's idiom not so modern, we might think that the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing once more.
Author | : Kemp Malone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Marsden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2004-04 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521456128 |
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Author | : Israel Gollancz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2018-10-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780341945420 |
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : R.M. Liuzza |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2014-03-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1554811570 |
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R.M. Liuzza’s Broadview edition of Beowulf was published at almost exactly the same time as Seamus Heaney’s; in reviewing the two together in July 2000 for The New York Review of Books, Frank Kermode concluded that both translations were superior to their predecessors, and that it was impossible to choose between the two: “the less celebrated translator can be matched with the famous one,” he wrote, and “Liuzza’s book is in some respects more useful than Heaney’s.” Ever since, the Liuzza Beowulf has remained among the top sellers on the Broadview list. With this volume readers will now be able to enjoy a much broader selection of Old English poetry in translations by Liuzza. As the collection demonstrates, the range and diversity of the works that have survived is extraordinary—from heartbreaking sorrow to wide-eyed wonder, from the wisdom of old age to the hot blood of battle, and to the deepest and most poignant loneliness. There is breathless storytelling and ponderous cataloguing; there is fervent religious devotion and playful teasing. The poems translated here are meant to provide a sense of some of this range and diversity; in doing so they also offer significant portions of three of the important manuscripts of Old English poetry—the Vercelli Book, the Junius Manuscript, and the Exeter Book.
Author | : Antonina Harbus |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004488138 |
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Ideas about the human mind are culturally specific and over time vary in form and prominence. The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry presents the first extensive exploration of Anglo-Saxon beliefs about the mind and how these views informed Old English poetry. It identifies in this poetry a particular cultural focus on the mental world and formulates a multivalent model of the mind behind it, as the seat of emotions, the site of temptation, the container of knowledge, and a heroic weapon. The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry treats a wide range of Old English literary genres (in the context of their Latin sources and analogues where applicable) in order to discover how ideas about the mind shape the narrative, didactic, and linguistic design of poetic discourse. Particular attention is paid to the rich and slippery vernacular vocabulary for the mind which suggests a special interest in the subject in Old English poetry. The book argues that Anglo-Saxon poets were acutely conscious of mental functions and perceived the psychological basis not only of the cognitive world, but also of the emotions and of the spiritual life.