Book Description
A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.
Author : Eric Weiskott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107169658
A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.
Author : Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521375504
This book throws light on the debate about the 'orality' or 'literacy' of Old English verse, whether it was transmitted orally or written down.
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : 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.
Author : Colin A. Ireland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501513931
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 : John Duncan Ernst Spaeth
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 1921
Category : English poetry
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Author : T. A. Shippey
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393334155
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
Author : Lois Bragg
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838634035
This work is a treatment of over thirty Old English lyrics including prayers, riddles, charms, the epilogues to Cynewulf's four signed poems, lyric interludes from Beowulf, and poems from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Author : Patrick P. O’Neill
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674504755
The Latin psalms—translated into Old English—figured prominently in the lives of Anglo-Saxons, whether sung by clerics, studied as a textbook for language learning, or recited in private devotion by lay people. The complete text of all 150 prose and verse psalms is available here in contemporary English for the first time.
Author : H. Momma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 1997-03-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521554817
This 'prosodical' syntax is intended to replace the famous syntactic laws of Hans Kuhn through its greater accuracy and wider range of application.