The Love Of Nature In The Early English Poetry
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Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry
Author | : Jennifer Neville |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1999-03-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113942596X |
This book examines descriptions of the natural world in a wide range of Old English poetry. Jennifer Neville describes the physical conditions experienced by the Anglo-Saxons - the animals, diseases, landscapes, seas and weather with which they had to contend. She argues that poetic descriptions of these elements were not a reflection of the existing physical conditions but a literary device used by Anglo-Saxons to define more important issues: the state of humanity, the creation and maintenance of society, the power of individuals, the relationship between God and creation and the power of writing to control information. Examples of contemporary literature in other languages are used to provide a sense of Old English poetry's particular approach, which incorporated elements from Germanic, Christian and classical sources. The result of this approach was not a consistent cosmological scheme but a rather contradictory vision which reveals much about how the Anglo-Saxons viewed themselves.
Poetry Realized in Nature
Author | : Trevor H. Levere |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2002-08-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521524902 |
This volume establishes the fundamental importance of science in Coleridge's intellectual development.
The Complete Old English Poems
Author | : |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 1248 |
Release | : 2017-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0812293215 |
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.
English Literature, from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest
Author | : Stopford Augustus Brooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Anglo-Saxon literature |
ISBN | : |
The interpretation of nature in English poetry from Beowulf to Shakespeare
Author | : Frederic William Moorman |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2018-02-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3111675416 |
Theology in the English poets
Author | : Stopford Augustus Brooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
The History of Early English Literature
Author | : Stopford Augustus Brooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
An Introduction to English Literature
Author | : Henry Spackman Pancoast |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Based upon the author's Representative English literature. of.