Old English and Middle English Poetry
Old English and Middle English Poetry

Author: Derek Pearsall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0429578148

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Originally published in 1977, Old English and Middle English Poetry provides a historical approach to English poetry. The book examines the conditions out of which poetry grew and argues that the functions that it was assigned are historically integral to an informed understanding of the nature of poetry. The book aims to relate poems to the intellectual and formal traditions by which they are shaped and given their being. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying or working in the fields of literature and history alike.

Old English and Middle English Poetry
Old English and Middle English Poetry

Author: Derek Pearsall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 042957603X

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Originally published in 1977, Old English and Middle English Poetry provides a historical approach to English poetry. The book examines the conditions out of which poetry grew and argues that the functions that it was assigned are historically integral to an informed understanding of the nature of poetry. The book aims to relate poems to the intellectual and formal traditions by which they are shaped and given their being. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying or working in the fields of literature and history alike.

English Alliterative Verse
English Alliterative Verse

Author: Eric Weiskott

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1107169658

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A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.

The Complete Old English Poems
The Complete Old English Poems

Author:

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-03-03

Total Pages: 1248

ISBN-13: 0812248473

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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.

A Book of Middle English
A Book of Middle English

Author: J. A. Burrow

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1118697359

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This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook. Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regional dialects. Now includes extracts from 'Pearl' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'. Bibliographic references have been updated throughout. Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.

The Language of Old and Middle English Poetry
The Language of Old and Middle English Poetry

Author: G.A. Lester

Publisher: Red Globe Press

Published: 1996-04-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0333488474

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Understanding the language of Old and Middle English poetry is not just a matter of 'translating' medieval texts into a digestible form. The language was itself the subtlest expression of the whole culture. To understand all its complexities may be an impossible task, but to make the attempt immeasurably increases the pleasure and value of a reader's experience. This book is concerned with those aspects of Old and Middle English language which most affect poetry, particularly vocabulary, semantics and syntax. It assumes no prior knowledge of the language or literature of the period and is an ideal starting point for those tackling these texts for the first time and those who wish to explore the language of medieval English poetry in more detail.

Readings in Medieval Texts
Readings in Medieval Texts

Author: David Frame Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780199261635

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Readings in Medieval Texts offers a thorough and accessible introduction to the interpretation and criticism of a broad range of Old and Middle English canonical texts from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume brings together 24 newly commissioned chapters by a leading international team of medieval scholars. An introductory chapter highlights the overarching trends in the composition of English Literature in the Medieval periods, and provides an overview of the textual continuities and innovations. Individual chapters give detailed information about context, authorship, date, and critical views on texts, before providing fascinating and thought-provoking examinations of crucial excerpts and themes. This book will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students on all courses in Medieval Studies, particularly those focusing on understanding literature and its role in society.

Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature
Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature

Author: Elaine Treharne

Publisher: DS Brewer

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780859917605

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Medievalists demonstrate how a focus on gender can transform an approach to literary texts and genres. The essays in this annual English Association volume provide useful examples of how the conventions behind and the expectations evoked by literary modes and genres help to shape what purports to be an entirely essential and/or socially constructed aspect of identity of the 'he', 'she', or 'I' of the literary text. Ranging across materials from Old English Biblical poetry and hagiography to the late Middle English romances and fabliaux, the essays are united by a commitment to a variety of traditional scholarly methodologies. But each examines afresh an important aspect of what it means to be man or women, husband, son, mother, daughter, wife, devotee or love in the context of particular kinds of medieval literary texts. Contributors ANNE MARIE D'ARCY, HUGH MAGENNIS, DAVID SALTER, MARY SWAN, ELAINE TREHARNE, GREG WALKER.

Beowulf and Other Old English Poems
Beowulf and Other Old English Poems

Author: Constance Hieatt

Publisher: Bantam Classics

Published: 2010-05-26

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0307434826

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Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic world–somber, vast, and magnificent.