The Dream of the Rood

by Albert Stanburrough Cook

Book Overview

The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius. Immediately attractive, its poetic content is readily accessible to the modern reader, being in the mainstream of Western religious thought. Representative of the Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon culture, drawing on both visual and doctrinal motifs, it provides a ready introduction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859892247
• ISBN13: 9780859892247
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Length: 150 Pages