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What is Old English and Middle English Poetry about?

Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Original Title Page 6 Original Copyright Page 7 Contents 8 General editor’s preface 12 Introduction 14 Abbreviations 16 Chapter 1: Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition 18 Germanic traditions 20 The ‘heroic’ poems 22 Beowulf: heroic and Christian traditions 24 Beowulf: methods, style and form 28 Beowulf: Latin and monastic background 35 Beowulf: date and provenance 39 Chapter 2: Anglo-Saxon religious poems 42 Scriptural poems 47 Saints’ lives 57 Devotional poems 61 Homiletic poetry 65 Meditative poems: the ‘elegies’ 68 Chapter 3: Late Old English poetry and the transition 74 ‘Classical’ poetry in late Old English 77 Poetry and prose 83 ‘Popular’ poetry 87 Transitional verse and prose 91 Transitional verse 94 Transitional ‘prose’ 98 Chapter 4: Poetry in the early Middle English period 102 English and Anglo-Norman 102 Clerical tradition: poetry of the ‘schools’ 106 The friars’ miscellanies 111 Poetry of popular instruction 119 Lazamon 125 Thirteenth-century romance and chronicle 130 Chapter 5: Some fourteenth-century books and writers 136 MS Harley 2253 137 Collections of religious verse 149 The Vernon MS 157 The Auchinleck MS

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Author

Derek Pearsall

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2017

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction