King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Metres of Boethius
Author : Boethius
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 1835
Category : Didactic poetry, English (Old)
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Author : Boethius
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 1835
Category : Didactic poetry, English (Old)
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Author : Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 1829
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Author : Boethius
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Consolation
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Author : Boethius
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 1835
Category : Didactic poetry, English (Old)
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Author : Alfred (King of England)
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
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In these poems, King Alfred re-built the Latin verses from Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (`On the Consolation of Philosophy') into new alliterative poems, via an Old English prose intermediary. The stirring images and stories of Boethius' original are retained - streams, legends, animals, volcanoes - and developed for an Anglo-Saxon audience to include the Gothic invasion of Italy (Metre 1), the figure of Welland the Smith (Metre 10), and the hugely disconcerting image of Death's hunt for Mankind (Metre 27). In this new edition clarity of text, informative notes and a helpful glossary have been a priority, for this is one of the most approachable of Old English verse texts; its relative neglect by specialists will mean this text will come as a new experience to many practised students of the language.
Author : Boethius
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 1829
Category : Didactic poetry, English (Old)
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Author : Boethius
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 1829
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Author : Samuel Fox
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 2015-08-08
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ISBN : 9781298499493
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Author : Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 1835
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Author : Alfred (King of England)
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Consolation
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