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Alexander, Michael

 
9780856463785: Old English Riddles: From the Exeter Book
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ISBN 10: 0856463787 ISBN 13: 9780856463785
Editorial: Anvil Press Poetry, 2007

Sinopsis

The Old English Riddles survive through a manuscript of about the year 1000 left to Exeter Cathedral by Leofric, its first bishop. Unlike most of the poetry preserved in the "Exeter Book", the Riddles are secular poems, robustly celebrating the familiar objects and natural world of eighth-century England. In this newly revised edition of his popular collection, Michael Alexander presents a selection of these ingenious and enigmatic poems in versions which capture their peculiar concision, humour and vigour of language.

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Acerca del autor

Michael Alexander was, until his retirement, the Professor of English Literature at St Andrews University. He is the author of the Penguin Classics Beowulf, The Earliest English Poems and The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment. His critical study The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. His other books include A History of Old English Literature and Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England. He lives in Wells, Somerset.

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Editorial
Anvil Press Poetry
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0856463787
ISBN 13 
9780856463785
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
96
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780856460708: Old English Riddles: From the Exeter Book: 11 (Poetica)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0856460702 ISBN 13:  9780856460708
Editorial: Anvil Press Poetry, 1997
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