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Didactic poetry, English (Old). --- Didactic poetry, English (Old) --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Modernized versions. --- Poetry.
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English language --- Didactic poetry, English (Old) --- Versification. --- History and criticism.
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Didactic poetry, English (Old) --- Philosophy, Medieval, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Boethius, --- Alfred,
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Didactic poetry, English (Old). --- Prophecies --- Runes --- Poetry. --- Poetry. --- Rune poem (Anglo-Saxon poem).
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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.
English poetry --- Epic poetry, English (Old) --- Didactic poetry, English (Old) --- Riddles, English (Old)
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This critical edition provides unique access to a work which has challenged scholars and students alike. The book is the first to deal fully with the poem as literature and to supply the runic background necessary for an understanding of the raw materials with which the poet was working. The introduction offers a thorough discussion of the origin, development, and uses of runes before proceeding to the close examination of text, language, literary sources, style, and themes of the poem. Following the text and translation of the poem proper, detailed explanatory notes pay particular attention to the background of each individual rune and rune name, and the appendixes provide analogous material to assist in setting the poet's achievement into the runic context. Since many of the sources necessary for an accurate assessement of the Old English Rune Poem are written in foreign or dead languages, modern English translations have been provided throughout to ensure that the poem will be accessible to students as well as to professional medievalists. (McMaster Old English Studies and Texts 2)
Didactic poetry, English (Old) --- Prophecies --- Runes --- Rune poem (Anglo-Saxon poem) --- Rune poem (Anglo-Saxon poem)
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Christian poetry, English (Old) --- Didactic poetry, English (Old) --- Epic poetry, English (Old) --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature. --- Ethics, Medieval, in literature. --- Anglo-Saxons --- Heroes in literature. --- Values in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life.
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Didactic poetry, English (Old). --- English poetry --- Modernized versions. --- Didactic poetry, English (Old) --- -820 "06/10" --- Anglo-Saxon didactic poetry --- Didactic poetry, Anglo-Saxon --- English didactic poetry, Old --- Old English didactic poetry --- 820 "06/10" --- Anglo-Saxon poetry --- English poetry, Old --- Old English poetry --- 820 "06/10" Engelse literatuur--?"06/10" --- Engelse literatuur--?"06/10" --- Modernized versions --- English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Modernized versions --- English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100
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Didactic poetry, English (Old) --- Learning and scholarship --- Anglo-Saxons --- History and criticism --- Bibliography. --- History --- Intellectual life --- 091 =20 --- 820-1 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Engelse literatuur: poëzie --- 820-1 Engelse literatuur: poëzie --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Education --- Learned institutions and societies --- Research --- Scholars --- Anglo-Saxon didactic poetry --- Didactic poetry, Anglo-Saxon --- English didactic poetry, Old --- Old English didactic poetry --- English poetry --- Saxons --- Intellectual life&delete& --- Bibliography --- History and criticism&delete& --- History&delete& --- Didactic poetry, English (Old) - History and criticism - Bibliography. --- Learning and scholarship - History - Medieval, 500-1500 - Bibliography. --- Anglo-Saxons - Intellectual life - Bibliography.
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This study is the first concentrated investigation of the Old English Book of Consolation Meters, associated with King Alfred’s court. These Alfredian poems, which have long been neglected, recapture poetic ideas from their Latin model, Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae . This volume examines the Meters as poetic responses to the prose passages of the Froferboc . The poetry provides allusive commentary on the prose as it echoes poetic ideas in Boethius’ poetry. It is the first study to benefit from the recent edition of the Froferboc , the first printed edition to restore the prosimetrum format presented in the earliest manuscript.
Didactic poetry, English (Old) --- Christianity and literature. --- Anglo-Saxon didactic poetry --- Didactic poetry, Anglo-Saxon --- English didactic poetry, Old --- Old English didactic poetry --- English poetry --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- History and criticism. --- Old English --- Alfred, --- Boethius, --- Old English version of Boethius De consolatione philosophiae (Alfred, King of England) --- King Alfred's Old English version of Boethius De consolatione philosophiae (Alfred, King of England) --- König Alfreds Trostbuch (Alfred, King of England) --- Trostbuch (Alfred, King of England) --- 802.0-022 --- 820-1 "06/10" --- 802.0-022 Oudengels --- Oudengels --- 820-1 "06/10" Engelse literatuur: poëzie--?"06/10" --- Engelse literatuur: poëzie--?"06/10"
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