Chapters on Old English Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138565142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str.

Edith Elizabeth Wardale

Opis

These chapters on Old English Literature are intended to fill the gap between Professor Thomas’s valuable, but all too brief account in his English Literature before Chaucer, and longer works, such as those of Stopford Brooke and the Chapters in the first volume of the Cambridge History of English Literature.

Spis treści

Preface 1. Old English Literature 2. Gnomic Verses, Charms and Early Lyrical Poems 3. Lyrical Poems (Cont.) 4. Early Epic: Beowulf 5. Beowulf (Cont.) 6. Caedmon: Andreas 7. Cynewulf 8. Poems Formerly Ascribed to Cynewulf 9. Judith: Later Historical Lays and Other Poems 10. Early Prose: Alfred, Gregory’s Dialogues 11. Later Prose: The Blicking Homilies: Aelfric and Wulfstan 12. Later Prose (Cont.): A.S. Chronicle and Minor Works INDEX

O autorze

Edith Elizabeth Wardale