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Author : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Brunanburh, Battle of, 937
ISBN : UCAL:B4281739
Author : Charles Langley Crow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Brunanburh, Battle of, 937
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPNZ7
Author : D. G. Scragg
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 0719008387
Author : Bruce Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:301202441
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Maldon, Battle of, England, 991
ISBN : UOM:39015005321875
Author : Craig Williamson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812204407
The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious. And in Craig Williamson's splendid new version, this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreter. Williamson's Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer," the heroic "Battle of Maldon," the visionary "Dream of the Rood," the mysterious and heart-breaking "Wulf and Eadwacer," and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles. Accompanied by a foreword by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and archaeology, and Williamson's introductions to the individual poems as well as his essay on translating Old English, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead hall to share an exile's lament or herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation. 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, the world becomes a place of rare wonder in Williamson's lines. Were his idiom not so modern, we might almost think the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing after a silence of a thousand years.
Author : Walter John Sedgefield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104537745
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Bernard James Muir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 2881243576
First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : R. F. Leslie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Elegiac poetry, English (Old)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Walter John Sedgefield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015005195915
Author : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444011418
Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award in 2001, this timeless novel is stunningly reissued for a new generation. The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a magical shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to echo - and anticipate - the secrets and mysteries that emerge in his own life . . . "As bright and as vivid as the pictures in a Book of Hours. Deep scholarship, high imagination, and great gifts of storytelling have gone into this; I was spellbound." - Philip Pullman, The Guardian
Author : Steven J. A. Breeze
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : 9781843846451
Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contributions to the rediscovery and widening popularity of Old English poetry. However, while these performances capture the imagination, they also influence an audience's view of the world of the original poems, even to propagating certain assumptions, particularly those to do with performance practices. By stripping away these assumptions, this book aims to uncover the ways in which representations of performance in Old English poetry are intimately associated with poetic production and fundamental cultural concerns. Through an examination of Beowulf, diverse wisdom poems, and the "artist" poems Deor and Widsith, it proposes that poets constructed an imaginary domain of "poetic performance", which negotiated tensions between early medieval creativity and core social beliefs. It also shows how the poems' relationship with oral methods of composition and circulation weakened in later medieval poetry as both language and poetic form altered. Overall, the book explores what depictions of performance within these texts can tell us about early medieval conceptualisations, processes, and practices, in the poetic imagination and in wider culture. Through an analysis of Eddic poetry and Laȝamon's Brut, it also highlights a tradition of "poetic performance" in English poetics.
Author : George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : John D. Niles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118598832
This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline. Examines the notable works and authors from the period, including Beowulf, the Venerable Bede, heroic poems, and devotional literature Reinforces key perspectives with excerpts from ten critical studies Addresses questions of medieval literacy, textuality, and orality, as well as style, gender, genre, and theme Embraces the interdisciplinary nature of the field with reference to historical studies, religious studies, anthropology, art history, and more
Author : Elizabeth M. Tyler
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781903153208
A new approach to the study of Old English Poetry, featuring close reading of the text, its form and style. Traditions are created and maintained by groups of people living in specific times and places: they do not have a life of their own. In this radical new approach to Old English poetics, the author argues that the apparent timelessness and stability of Old English poetic convention is a striking historical phenomenon that must be accounted for, not assumed, and that the perceived conservatism of Old English poetic conventions is the result of choice. Successive generations of poets deliberately maintained the traditionality of Old English poetry, putting it into dialogue with contemporary conditions to express critique and dissent as well as nostalgia. The author makes particularuse of the rich language of treasure to be found in Anglo-Saxon verse to historicise her argument, but her argument has wide implications for how we approach the role of tradition in the poetry of earlier societies. DrELIZABETH TYLER teaches in the Department of English and the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.