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A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Richard Hamer
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-30 - Publisher: Faber & Faber

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A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wandere
The Earliest English Poems
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Michael Alexander
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1970 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse
Language: en
Pages: 191
Authors: Samantha Zacher
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-05 - Publisher: A&C Black

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The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few ind
How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Daniel Donoghue
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-01 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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The scribes of early medieval England wrote out their vernacular poems using a format that looks primitive to our eyes because it lacks the familiar visual cues
English Alliterative Verse
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Eric Weiskott
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.