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Poems in old english
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Year: 1962 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Harper and Row,

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Daniel and Azarias
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ISBN: 0416781306 9780416781304 Year: 1974 Publisher: London: Methuen,

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Altenglische Lyrik : Englisch und Deutsch
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ISBN: 3150079950 9783150079959 Year: 1972 Volume: 7995-7997 Publisher: Stuttgart: Reclam,


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Finnsburh : fragment and episode
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ISBN: 0416789307 9780416789300 Year: 1974 Publisher: London: Methuen,

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A choice of Anglo-Saxon verse
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ISBN: 0571087647 0571087655 9780571087648 9780571087655 0571228364 9780571228362 Year: 1970 Publisher: London: Faber and Faber,

The Guthlac poems of the Exeter book
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ISBN: 0198124627 9780198124627 Year: 1979 Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon,


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Three Northumbrian poems : Caedmon's Hymn, Bede's Death song and the Leiden riddle
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ISBN: 0423792407 9780423792409 Year: 1968 Publisher: London: Methuen,


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Old English studies in honour of John C. Pope
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ISBN: 1442632712 1442652098 Year: 1974 Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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As a tribute to the superb teaching and exemplary literary criticism of this eminent Yale scholar, the majority of these essays deal with thematic, textual, and prosodic issues in Old English poetry, seven of them providing a valuable reassessment of some of the perennial problems of Beowulf criticism: the implications of its metaphysical and social systems as well as its rhetorical and imagistic structures; and especially the recurrent need for a careful re-examination of the text and a return to the manuscript evidence. These contributions add significantly to the debate over the meaning of the tragic element of Beowulf and to the better understanding of the character of its hero. The poetic literature is further represented by a new evaluation of the central literary problems of the Exodus, a reinterpretation of the puzzling Wulf and Eadwacer, and philological and syntactical examinations of Maldon and the Phoenix. Other interests of Professor Pope are reflected in two metrical analyses and a thorough lexicographical survey of Old English prosodic terminology, a painstaking study of the chapter-headings in the Old English Bede, and an essay which brilliantly establishes the experience of a hitherto unknown AElfric manuscript.


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A feast of creatures : Anglo-Saxon riddle-songs
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ISBN: 1283897067 081220445X 0812211294 9781283897068 9780812204452 Year: 2011 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightingale, plow, ox, phallic onion, and storm-wind. In lean and taut language he offers us mead disguised as a mighty wrestler, the sword as a celibate thane, the silver wine-cup as a seductress, the horn transformed from head-warrior to ink-belly or battle-singer. In his notes and commentary he gives us possible and probable solutions, sources, and analogues, a shrewd sense of literary play, and traces the literary and cultural contexts in which each riddle may be viewed. In his introduction, Williamson traces for us the history of riddles and riddle scholarship.

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