Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England write by Emily V. Thornbury. This book was released on 2014-01-30. Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Combining historical, literary and linguistic evidence from Old English and Latin, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete picture of who and what pre-Conquest English poets really were. It includes a study of Anglo-Saxon words for 'poet' and the first list of named poets in Anglo-Saxon England. Its survey of known poets identifies four social roles that poets often held - teachers, scribes, musicians and courtiers - and explores the kinds of poetry created by these individuals. The book also offers a new model for understanding the role of social groups in poets' experience: it argues that the presence or absence of a poetic community affected the work of Anglo-Saxon poets at all levels, from minute technical detail to the portrayal of character. This focus on poetic communities provides a new way to understand the intersection of history and literature in the Middle Ages.
Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England
Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England write by Emily Victoria Thornbury. This book was released on 2014. Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete picture of who and what pre-Conquest English poets really were. It includes a study of Anglo-Saxon words for 'poet' and the first list of named poets in Anglo-Saxon England. Its survey of known poets identifies four social roles that poets often held "--
Hero and Exile
Hero and Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hero and Exile write by Greenfield,. This book was released on 1989-07-01. Hero and Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After a distinguished career as a teacher, scholar, bibliographer and literary critic, Stanley Brian Greenfield, Professor of English at the University of Oregon, one of the founders of the annual Anglo-Saxon England and of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, died in 1987. He wrote primarily on Anglo-Saxon topics as well as later English poetry. He deeply explored the Old English poetic corpus, pointing out important meanings and qualities in insightful and sensitive readings. Hero and Exile brings together some of his most important essays, divided into three sections - Beowulfian Studies, The Old English Elegies and The Theme of Exile - attesting to his long and fruitful engagement with Old English literature.
The Earliest English Poems
The Earliest English Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Earliest English Poems write by Michael Alexander. This book was released on 1970. The Earliest English Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England write by Patrick McBrine. This book was released on 2017-06-30. Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Biblical poetry, written between the fourth and eleventh centuries, is an eclectic body of literature that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible across Europe. Composed mainly in Latin and subsequently in Old English, biblical versification has much to tell us about the interpretations, genre preferences, reading habits, and pedagogical aims of medieval Christian readers. Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England provides an accessible introduction to biblical epic poetry. Patrick McBrine’s erudite analysis of the writings of Juvencus, Cyprianus, Arator, Bede, Alcuin, and more reveals the development of a hybridized genre of writing that informed and delighted its Christian audiences to such an extent it was copied and promoted for the better part of a millennium. The volume contains many first-time readings and discussions of poems and passages which have long lain dormant and offers new evidence for the reception of the Bible in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
