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Old English Poetry • Survives mainly in 4 manuscripts written 975-1025 • Often only one copy of each poem • 1. Beowulf MS (BL, Cotton Vitellius A.xv) - ‘Book of Monsters’ • 2. Junius MS (Oxford, Bodleian Library) • 3. Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Italy) • 4. Exeter Book (Exeter Cathedral)
28 Ιουλ 2011 · Old English poetry is a somewhat improbable recent success story, in an era when formal study of classical literature and even the study of modern languages have been in decline in England. The most prominent success was Seamus Heaney’s verse translation of Beowulf in 1999, a volume which won prizes in competition not only with other poetry ...
Recognize features and techniques of Old English poetry and consider their poetic effect • Develop skills in creative and critical writing and reflect on their own writing • Analyse and evaluate the meaning, form, and style of the poetry in its original language
Most Old English poems are generic hybrids, combining the characteristics of several genres; for instance, Juliana combines epic and saint's life, Judgment Day II blends elegy and planctus, The Phoenix unites wisdom
English literature - Old English, Poetry, Manuscripts: The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who invaded Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries brought with them the common Germanic meter; but of their earliest oral poetry, probably used for panegyric, magic, and short narrative, little or none survives.
Old English poetry dates from the 5th to the 11th centuries and embodies the earliest form of English literature. Works from this era reflect the history, belief systems, and heroic ideals of early Germanic societies.
All of these poems appear in the famous Exeter Book, the first anthology of poetry in English, and together with Beowulf (which is often said to contain elegies and/or to be elegiac) they include the most studied Old English texts.
