Synopsis
Unlike most of the Old English poetry preserved in the Exeter Book, the Riddles are secular poems, robustly celebrating the familiar objects and natural world of eighth-century England. Michael Alexander presents a selection of these ingenious and enigmatic poems in versions which capture their peculiar concision, suggestion and vigour of language. Michael Alexander is a poet and the translator of The Earliest English Poems and Beowulf (both Penguin Classics).
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Michael Alexander was, until his retirement, the Professor of English Literature at St Andrews University. He is the author of the Penguin Classics Beowulf, The Earliest English Poems and The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment. His critical study The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. His other books include A History of Old English Literature and Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England. He lives in Wells, Somerset.
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London : Anvil Press Poetry, 1980
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First Edition. Near fine paperback review copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; Poetica ; 11. Physical description; 71 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects;Traditional riddles in Old English Anthologies English texts Riddles, English Old. Devinettes et énigmes vieil-anglaises. Riddles, English. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 464710