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A New Critical History of Old English Literature / Daniel G. Calder, Stanley B. Greenfield.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814730027
  • 9780814738559
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 829.09
LOC classification:
  • PR173 .G73 1986
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the New Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Original Edition -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Anglo-Latin Background -- CHAPTER 2. The Alfredian Translations and Related Ninth-Century Texts -- CHAPTER 3. Ælfric, Wulfstan, and Other Late Prose -- CHAPTER 4. Legal and Scientific Prose -- CHAPTER 5. Some Remarks on the Nature and Quality of Old English Poetry -- CHAPTER 6. Secular Heroic Poetry -- CHAPTER 7. The Christian Saint as Hero -- CHAPTER 8. Christ as Poetic Hero -- CHAPTER 9. Old Testament Narrative Poetry -- CHAPTER 10. Miscellaneous Religious and Secular Poetry -- CHAPTER 11. Lore and Wisdom -- CHAPTER 12. Elegiac Poetry -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index
Summary: Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry is, without question, the major literary achievement of the early Middle Ages (c. 700-1100). In no other vernacular language does such a vast store of verbal treasures exist for so extended a period of time. For twenty years the definitive guide to that literature has been Stanley B. Greenfield's 1965 Critical History of Old English Literature. Now this classic has been extensively revised and updated to make it more valuable than ever to both the student and scholar.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the New Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Original Edition -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Anglo-Latin Background -- CHAPTER 2. The Alfredian Translations and Related Ninth-Century Texts -- CHAPTER 3. Ælfric, Wulfstan, and Other Late Prose -- CHAPTER 4. Legal and Scientific Prose -- CHAPTER 5. Some Remarks on the Nature and Quality of Old English Poetry -- CHAPTER 6. Secular Heroic Poetry -- CHAPTER 7. The Christian Saint as Hero -- CHAPTER 8. Christ as Poetic Hero -- CHAPTER 9. Old Testament Narrative Poetry -- CHAPTER 10. Miscellaneous Religious and Secular Poetry -- CHAPTER 11. Lore and Wisdom -- CHAPTER 12. Elegiac Poetry -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index

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Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry is, without question, the major literary achievement of the early Middle Ages (c. 700-1100). In no other vernacular language does such a vast store of verbal treasures exist for so extended a period of time. For twenty years the definitive guide to that literature has been Stanley B. Greenfield's 1965 Critical History of Old English Literature. Now this classic has been extensively revised and updated to make it more valuable than ever to both the student and scholar.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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