The Complete Old English Poems.

From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • WEAVING WISDOM / Williamson, Craig
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION / Shippey, Tom
  • NOTE ON THE TEX TS, TITLES, AND ORGANIZATION OF THE POEMS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • ON TRANSLATING OLD ENGLISH POETRY
  • THE JUNIUS MANUSCRIPT
  • THE VERCELLI BOOK
  • THE EXETER BOOK
  • BEOWULF AND JUDITH
  • THE METRICAL PSALMS OF THE PARIS PSALTER AND THE METERS OF BOETHIUS
  • THE MINOR POEMS
  • ADDITIONAL POEMS
  • APPENDIX OF POSSIBLE RIDDLE SOLUTIONS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF POEM TITLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS