A Feast of Creatures : : Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs / / Craig Williamson.
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 nightingal...
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A Feast of Creatures : Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs / Craig Williamson. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©1982 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CREDITS -- INTRODUCTION -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- The Riddles -- NOTES AND COMMENTARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR NOTES AND COMMENTARY -- INDEX OF SOLUTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020) English poetry Old English, ca. 450-1100. Riddles, English (Old) Cultural Studies. Literature. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical. bisacsh Williamson, Craig, editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) 9783110442526 print 9780812211290 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204452 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812204452 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812204452.jpg |
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