The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry

2 volumes

Buch | Hardcover

864 Seiten

2006
University of Exeter Press (Verlag)
978-0-85989-629-0 (ISBN)

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Commonly referred to as The Exeter Book, this important anthology is the earliest and largest surviving book of vernacular poetry from Anglo-Saxon England. Volume Two contains the Commentary, Bibliography, Index to Bibliography.

Commonly referred to as The Exeter Book, this important anthology is the earliest and largest surviving book of vernacular poetry from Anglo-Saxon England. This revised edition of the two-volume set first published in 1994 includes many newly-discovered alterations to the poetic texts in addition to the four hundred new readings listed in the first edition. The Bibliography has also been updated and reorganised and the Commentary includes discussion of critical works which have appeared since 1994. The book is published in a two-volume set. Volume One contains the Introduction and Texts. Volume Two contains the Commentary, Bibliography, Index to Bibliography.

Bernard Muir is Reader in Medieval Language and Literature in the English Department, University of Melbourne. His publications include The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship(Exeter); Vita Sancti Wilfridi Auctore Edmero: The Life of Saint Wilfrid by Edmer (Exeter); A Pre-Conquest English Prayerbook (Boydell).

VOLUME ONE

Foreword to the First Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
Acknowledgements

Introduction
TEXTS
The Advent Lyrics
The Ascension
Christ in Judgement
The Life of Saint Guthlac (A)
The Life of Saint Guthlac (B)
The Canticles of the Three Youths
The Phoenix
The Passion of Saint Juliana
The Wanderer
God's Gifts to Humankind
Precepts
The Seafarer
Vainglory
Widsith
The Fates of Mortals
Maxims I (A)
Maxims I (B)
Maxims I (C)
The Order of the World
The Riming Poem
The Panther
The Whale
The Partridge
Homiletic Fragment III
Soul and Body II
Deor
Wulf and Eadwacer
Riddles 1-59
The Wife's Lament
Judgement Day I
Contrition (A) and (B)
The Descent into Hell
Almsgiving
Pharaoh
The Lord's Prayer I
Homiletic Fragment II
Riddle 30b
Riddle 60
The Husband's Message
The Ruin
Riddles 61-94

VOLUME TWO
Introductory Remarks to the Commentry

Commentary

Abbreviations
Bibliography

Primary Sources and Facsimiles
Critical Literature
Reference Works Consulted
Index to Bibliography of Critical Literature

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.7.2006
Reihe/Serie	Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 225 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-85989-629-3 / 0859896293
ISBN-13	978-0-85989-629-0 / 9780859896290
Zustand	Neuware