Authors, audiences, and Old English verse
Bredehoft, Thomas A.
Authors, audiences, and Old English verse Thomas 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 . - 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.
9781442698413 1442698411
English poetry--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
English language--Versification.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
Electronic Books.
PE257
Authors, audiences, and Old English verse Thomas 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 . - 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.
9781442698413 1442698411
English poetry--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
English language--Versification.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
Electronic Books.
PE257