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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.
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.
Beowulf is the oldest surviving long poem written in Old English. Written between the 8th and 11th centuries by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, this poem survived in a single manuscript that was badly damaged in the 1731 Cotton Library fire.
23 Δεκ 2010 · The Aesthetics of Nostalgia is a study of the interface 'between poetic form and historical consciousness' in Old English poetry (p. 6). The book's introduction establishes a binary opposition that runs throughout the study: Trilling's distinction between the teleological
4 Σεπ 2024 · Deor is an Old English elegy and one of the shorter poems found in the Exeter Book, a late 10th-century manuscript that contains a collection of Old English poetry. The poem is notable for its unique form, its exploration of personal and communal suffering, and its refrain, which serves as both a structural and thematic element.
28 Ιουλ 2011 · Some Old English poems, such as The Wanderer, The Seafarer and Wulf and Eadwacer are amongst the most widely translated items in the twentieth century.
The Old English poem “Deor” is unique in that it has a repeating refrain “þæs oferēode, þisses swā mæg” (That passed away, and so may this). It also describes five disastrous events in history or mythology, which would have been familiar to the audience, and which are used to demonstrate that terrible situations can be overcome.
