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Much Old English poetry seems composed in a minor key; the plaintive, retrospective, elegiac tone is sounded not only in the most familiar works like Beowulf and The Seafarer but also in riddles, lives of saints, and biblical paraphrases. This tendency has been noted often enough to be a common-place.
23 Φεβ 2011 · 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 model of Christian salvation history and an alternate form of ...
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
Trilling’s reading of the later poems of the Chronicle, generally overlooked by critics and excluded from the canonical Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records series, offers a particular interesting way to regard these odd unmetrical texts on the margins of Old English.
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.
Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England. [1]
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)
