Five Old English Verse Prayers
Author: Thomas Lawrence Noronha
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 660
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Author: Thomas Lawrence Noronha
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 660
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah Larratt Keefer
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2010-05-31
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1551117886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a student edition with full Glossary of Old English poems, from manuscripts dated between A.D. 975 and 1060, which are based on liturgical materials used in the Anglo-Saxon Church. Each poem is presented with both a semi-diplomatic and a modern critical text on facing pages. Detailed explanatory notes accompany the text of each poem, and an introduction provides historical, cultural, and liturgical background for this sub-genre of vernacular English verse.
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-01-31
Total Pages: 1248
ISBN-13: 0812293215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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.
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Publisher: Wydawnictwo UJ
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Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 8323386692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John M. Hill
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0802099440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat makes one Anglo-Saxon poem better than another? Why does Beowulf still have the power to move us after so many centuries? What might have been aesthetically pleasing to Old English readers and writers of poetry? While there is an apparent consensus by scholars on a core of poems considered to be exceptional literary achievements - Beowulf, Judith, the Vercelli book - there has been little systematic investigation of the basis for these appraisals. With new essays on rhetoric, wordplay, meter, structure, irony, form, psychology, ethos, and reader response, the contributors to this collection aim to find objective aesthetic qualities in Anglo-Saxon poetry. Posing questions of quality and beauty as discoverable in artefacts, On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems significantly advances our understanding not only of aesthetics and Old English poetry, but also of Old English attitudes towards literature as an art form.
Author: Martha G. Alexander
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of poems by various poets, many with a spiritual orientation.
Author: Sarah Larratt Keefer
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780859914697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeven original essays on the theory, practice and future of editing Old English verse.
Author: T.A. Shippey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-08-10
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1000921190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOld English Verse (1972) covers the whole range of Old English poetry: the heroic poems, notably Beowulf and Malden; the ‘elegies’, such as The Wanderer and The Seafarer; the Bible stories and the lives of the saints which mark the end of pagan influence and the beginning of Christian inspiration; the Junius Manuscript; and finally King Alfred. All the many quotations are translated.
Author: Paul G. Remley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-06-28
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 052147454X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group.