The Earliest English Poetry

A Critical Survey of the Poetry Written before the Norman Conquest, with Illustrative Translations

Charles W. Kennedy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

382 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-54304-8 (ISBN)

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The Earliest English Poetry (1971) offers a critical survey of Old English poetry, that is, of the vernacular verse composed in England from the seventh century to the Norman Conquest. It is a studied reappraisal of Old English verse by the light of modern critical scholarship.

Charles W. Kennedy

1. Germanic Tradition 2. Continental Backgrounds 3. Beowulf 4. The Elegies 5. The Riddles and Gnomic Verse 6. The Caedmonian Poems 7. The Signed Poems of Cynewulf 8. Poetry in the Cynewulfian Manner 9. The Religious Heroic Tale 10. Christian Allegory 11. Minor Religious Poems 12. The Historic Battle Poems

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-Saxon World
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	870 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-54304-3 / 1032543043
ISBN-13	978-1-032-54304-8 / 9781032543048
Zustand	Neuware