TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williamson,Craig
TI  - A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs 
SN  - 9780812211290
AV  - PR1760 .W9 1972b
U1  - 398.6 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Old English, ca. 450-1100
KW  - Riddles, English (Old)
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Medieval and Renaissance Studies
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; CREDITS --; INTRODUCTION --; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --; The Riddles --; NOTES AND COMMENTARY --; BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR NOTES AND COMMENTARY --; INDEX OF SOLUTIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins.Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightingale, plow, ox, phallic onion, and storm-wind. In lean and taut language he offers us mead disguised as a mighty wrestler, the sword as a celibate thane, the silver wine-cup as a seductress, the horn transformed from head-warrior to ink-belly or battle-singer. In his notes and commentary he gives us possible and probable solutions, sources, and analogues, a shrewd sense of literary play, and traces the literary and cultural contexts in which each riddle may be viewed. In his introduction, Williamson traces for us the history of riddles and riddle scholarship
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