Authors, audiences, and Old English verseThomas A. Bredehoft.

Bredehoft, Thomas A.

Authors, audiences, and Old English verseThomas A. Bredehoft. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (xviii, 237 pages) - Toronto Anglo-Saxon series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Authorship and anonymity in Old English verse -- Manuscript audiences and other audiences -- The audience for Saxon songs in the late ninth century -- Literate poetic composition in tenth-century classical poems -- What has ¡lfric to do with Maldon? -- Eleventh-century traditions of formulaic composition -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Two unrecognized late Old English poems.

Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse re-examines the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and reconsiders the significance of formulaic parallels and the nature of poetic authorship in Old English.



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English poetry--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
English language--Versification.--Old English, ca. 450-1100


Electronic Books.

PE257 / .A984 2009