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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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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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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The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies [PDF]
, 2008 'The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies' uses a brief survey of current work on Old English poetry as the point of departure for arguing that although useful, the concepts of orality and literacy have, in medieval studies ...
Hall, Alaric
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Anthologizing Sir Samuel Ferguson: Literature, History, Politics [PDF]
, 2013 Published Online: 2013-10-25; This content is open access.Although Sir Samuel Ferguson is generally recognized as one of the key figures of mid-nineteenth-century Irish literature, there has been no major edition of his poems since 1916, as a result of ...
Jędrzejewski, Jan
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Thick as Trees: Kinship and Place in Transatlantic Small Press Poetry Networks [PDF]
, 2013 Cet article examine le rôle que jouent les maisons d’édition de poésie dans le travail et la réception de plusieurs poètes américains, écossais et britanniques : Lorine Niedecker, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roy Fisher et Stuart Mills.
Hair, Ross
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Orality, Germanic Literacy and Runic Inscriptions in Anglo-Saxon England
MatLit, 2017 The presence of runic writing before the influx of Latinate literacy in Anglo-Saxon England is often neglected when investigating the transitional nature of orality and literacy in vernacular Anglo-Saxon writing.
James Daly
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Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
SELIMThe Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf exists in numerous translations into prose and verse of various forms and styles. While some translators use accentual metre and alliteration to evoke the form of the original, few attempt to reproduce its metre and ...
Elliot Vale
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From Youth to Age through Old English Poetry (with Old Norse Parallels)
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2001 It has been argued that the most pre-eminent age of man among the Anglo-Saxons was senectus. This view is based on the fact that many contemporary texts emphasize the wisdom associated with age while ignoring the physical deterioration that it involves.
Jordi Sánchez Martí
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