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The Trumpet and the Wolf: Noises of Battle in Old English Poetry [PDF]
Oral Tradition, 2009 The present essay focuses on one element of battle-description in Old English poetry that is both conventional and to some extent realistic: the portrayal of battle as noisy.
Alice Jorgensen
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Urban Imagery in the Old English Exodus and its Hermeneutics
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2022 The present article offers a critical reading of the Old English Exodus, a poem that is an Old English versified adaptation of an episode from the biblical story of Exodus that narrates Israelites’ passage across the Red Sea and the destruction of ...
Olesiejko Jacek
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Punctuating Old English Poetry: Challenges and Strategies [PDF]
, 2018 As in other early language traditions, premodern English poetry was written out with very light punctuation. The sparsity of manuscript punctuation appears especially problematic in the period before 1200, when poetry in English lacked visual linebreaks.
Eric Weiskott
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English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History [PDF]
, 2016 English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth
Eric Weiskott
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Translation as Interpretation: Ezra Pound and Old English Poetry [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2019 The paper dwells on Ezra Pound's translations of Old English poetry. The essay gives a brief outlook on Pound’s study of the Old English language during his college years, highlights the poet’s interests in a field of Old English culture. Pound’s view on
Karina R. Ibragimova
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Objects That Object, Subjects That Subvert: Agency in Exeter Book Riddle 5
Humanities, 2022 A sequence of Old English riddles from the Exeter Book allow an implement to speak. This article focuses on one example, Riddle 5, generally solved as either a shield or a cutting board, to show how each interpretation gives voice not just to an ...
Jonathan Wilcox
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Old English Enigmatic Poems and Their Reception in Early Scholarship and Supernatural Fiction
Humanities, 2022 The scholarly reception history of the Old English riddles and adjacent “enigmatic poems” of the Exeter Book reveals a long process of creating intelligibility and order out of a complicated and obscure manuscript context.
Patrick Joseph Murphy
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Thomas Gray and the Goths: philology, poetry, and the uses of the Norse past in eighteenth-century England [PDF]
, 2014 In 1761 Thomas Gray composed two loose translations of Old Norse poems: The Fatal Sisters and The Descent of Odin. This article reconstructs Gray’s complex engagement with the world of seventeenth-century Scandinavian scholarship: recovering the texts he
Williams, Kelsey Jackson
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SELIMBook review of Coker, Matthew D. 2023. Supernatural Speakers in Old English Verse. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. Pp. 154. ISBN 9781641894128.
James Paz
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