ENGLISH

Old English Literature

By Michael Alexander

Book information

Publisher
Schocken Books
Year
1983
ISBN
080523862X, 9780805238624
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20224392 bytes)
Series
History of Literature Series
Pages
xvi+248\286
Topic
Literature
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2020-11-06 19:33:17

Description

This book hopes to remove one reason for the neglect of Anglo-Saxon England by a simple historical presentation of the main elements in Anglo-Saxon literature, and especially its poetry, in translation. Although its intentions are scholarly, this history of Old English literature is also an illustrative introduction, assuming little knowledge of this period or its surviving products and none of its language. Literary history should be reasonably inclusive, but in this field even specialist studies have to proceed without the usual dense grid of authors, titles, dates and places. In the present volume, writings without literary interest which happen to have survived, such as charms, wills and recipes, are not discussed. The emphasis falls less upon history than on literature, taken as a qualitative rather than merely a descriptive term.

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