Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781009390316 / Twarda / 2023 / 300 str.

Virginia) Lorden Jennifer A. (College of William and Mary

Opis

Firmly establishes the importance of early affective devotion in the hybrid poetics of the earliest English poetry.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Displaced passions: sympathy and suffering in poems on Christ and the saints; 2. Paradise and the problem of beauty in Old English poetry; 3. Poetics at the end of the world; 4. The poetics of the speaking soul from Old to Middle English; 5. Luue and lyric in England across the conquest; Epilogue.