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Old English Verse (Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-Saxon World) - Hardcover

Shippey, T.A.

 
9781032531809: Old English Verse (Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-Saxon World)

Synopsis

Old English Verse (1972) covers the whole range of Old English poetry: the heroic poems, notably Beowulf and Malden; the ‘elegies’, such as The Wanderer and The Seafarer; the Bible stories and the lives of the saints which mark the end of pagan influence and the beginning of Christian inspiration; the Junius Manuscript; and finally King Alfred. All the many quotations are translated.

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T.A. Shippey

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