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Anglo Saxon Poetry ebok
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Anglo-saxon poetry was circulated orally in a preliterate society, and gathered at last into books over some six centuries before the Norman Conquest ended English independence. Against the odds some of these books survive today. This anthology of prose translations covers most of the surviving poetry, revealing a tradition which is outstanding among early medieval literatures for its sophisticated exploration of the human condition in a mutable, finite, but wonderfully diverse and meaning-fill…
Undertittel
Anglo Saxon Poetry
Forlag
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Utgitt
11 desember 2016
Sjanger
Skjønnlitteratur, Lyrikk og dramatikk
Språk
English
Format
epub
DRM-beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781780223858
Anglo-saxon poetry was circulated orally in a preliterate society, and gathered at last into books over some six centuries before the Norman Conquest ended English independence. Against the odds some of these books survive today. This anthology of prose translations covers most of the surviving poetry, revealing a tradition which is outstanding among early medieval literatures for its sophisticated exploration of the human condition in a mutable, finite, but wonderfully diverse and meaning-filled world.
