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The Poetic Art of Aldhelm

By Andy Orchard

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
052145090X, 9780521450904, 0521034574, 9780521034579, 9780511597558
LCC
PA8246.A43 Z83 1994
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6573298 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England
Pages
332\328
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is the first book-length study of the poetic style of Aldhelm of Malmesbury, "the first English man of letters." Aldhelm is one of the earliest Anglo-Saxons whose writings survive, and the first to attempt to compose Latin metrical verse. Andy Orchard traces the sources and models for his idiosyncratic style and the nature and extent of his influence on later Anglo-Latin verse. The book will not only interest Anglo-Saxonists, but more broadly those interested in the wider fields of Classics, medieval Latin, oral tradition and poetics.

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