Seven Old English Poems
Author | : John Collins Pope |
Publisher | : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Collins Pope |
Publisher | : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 1248 |
Release | : 2017-03-03 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0812248473 |
Includes the Junius manuscript, Exeter book, Vercelli book, Beowulf and Judith, metrical psalms of Paris Psalter and the meters of Boethius, poems of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, riddles, charms, and a number of minor additional poems.
Author | : Antonina Harbus |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004488138 |
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.
Author | : Colin A. Ireland |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2022-01-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501513877 |
Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who availed themselves of free education in Ireland at this culturally dynamic time. Gaelic scholars called sapientes (“wise ones”) produced texts in Old Gaelic and Latin that demonstrate how Anglo-Saxon students were influenced by contact with Gaelic ecclesiastical and secular scholarship. Seventh-century Northumbria was ruled for over 50 years by Gaelic-speaking kings who could access Gaelic traditions. Gaelic literary traditions provide the closest analogues for Bede’s description of Cædmon’s production of Old English poetry. This ground-breaking study displays the transformations created by the growth of vernacular literatures and bilingual intellectual cultures. Gaelic missionaries and educational opportunities helped shape the Northumbrian “Golden Age”, its manuscripts, hagiography, and writings of Aldhelm and Bede.
Author | : Carol Braun Pasternack |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1995-07-20 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521465496 |
This study constructs a reading of Old English poetry which takes up issues in poststructuralist theory, including intertextuality, work versus text and the author. The modern reader knows this literature as a discrete number of poems, set up and printed in units punctuated as modern sentences and with titles inserted by modern editors. Carol Braun Pasternack offers an alternative approach which takes into account the format of the verse as it exists in the manuscripts, using the term 'inscribed' to define texts which are situated between oral inheritance and print. In a detailed examination of texts throughout the canon she explores the ways in which readers construct poems in the process of reading and in addition she extends her analysis to the question of authorship, arguing that the texts do not imply an author but rather imply tradition as the source of their authority.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2006-07-27 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141945435 |
Anglo-Saxon poetry was produced between 700 and 1000 AD for an audience that delighted in technical accomplishment, and the durable works of Old English verse spring from the source of the English language. Michael Alexander has translated the best of the Old English poetry into modern English and into a verse form that retains the qualities of Anglo-Saxon metre and alliteration. Included in this selection are the ‘heroic poems’ such as Widsith, Deor, Brunanburh and Maldon, and passages from Beowulf; some of the famous ‘riddles’ from The Exeter Book; all the ‘elegies’, including The Ruin, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Wife’s Complaint and The Husband’s Message, in which the virtu of Old English is found in its purest and most concentrated form; together with the great Christian poem The Dream of the Rood.
Author | : Burton Raffel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
While we learn a great deal about ancient Greece from writers like Homer, Aristophanes, and Sappho, Raffel goes on to say, our picture is sadly incomplete until we read the poetry of such lesser-known greats as Alkaios, Callimachos, and Simonides.
Author | : Michael Alexander |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2008-05-29 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141918764 |
This selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Heroic poems celebrate courage, loyalty and strength, in excerpts from Beowulf and in The Battle of Brunanburgh, depicting King Athelstan’s defeat of his northern enemies in 937 AD, while The Wanderer and The Seafarer reflect on exile, loss and destiny. The Gnomic Verses are proverbs on the natural order of life, and the Exeter Riddles are witty linguistic puzzles. Love elegies include emotional speeches from an abandoned wife and separated lovers, and devotional poems include a vision of Christ’s cross in The Dream of the Rood, and Caedmon’s Hymn, perhaps the oldest poem in English, speaking in praise of God.
Author | : Gaby Waxenberger |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2023-04-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110796902 |
This volume presents contributions to the conference Old English Runes Workshop, organised by the Eichstätt-München Research Unit of the Academy project Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS) and held at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in March 2012. The conference brought together experts working in an area broadly referred to as Runology. Scholars working with runic objects come from several different fields of specialisation, and the aim was to provide more mutual insight into the various methodologies and theoretical paradigms used in these different approaches to the study of runes or, in the present instance more specifically, runic inscriptions generally assigned to the English and/or the Frisian runic corpora. Success in that aim should automatically bring with it the reciprocal benefit of improving access to and understanding of the runic evidence, expanding and enhancing insights gained within such closely connected areas of study of the Early-Mediaeval past.
Author | : Eric Gerald Stanley |
Publisher | : PIMS |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780888449030 |