Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry

by Peter A. Clemoes

Book Overview

Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this appreciation of Old English poetry, with an alternative interpretation which relates the poetry to both the entire Anglo-Saxon way of thinking and the structures of its society. Clemoes proposes a dynamic principle of Old English poetry, very different from the common notion of formulas slotted into poems for stylistic variation. In extended discussions of particular poems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521035163
• ISBN13: 9780521035163
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"