Old English Poetry from Manuscript to Message

By (author) Peter Lucas

Extent: 416 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy

Series volume number: 58

Language: English

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(March 2024)

ISBN: 9782503600314

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Explores a variety of contexts of Old English poetry, including manuscript studies, metre, textual problems, and broader themes and readings.

By comparison with Latin Europe, Anglo-Saxon civilization is notable for the amount of literature preserved in contemporary manuscripts in the vernacular language, formerly called ‘Anglo-Saxon’ but now more usually called ‘Old English’. This literature includes some remarkable poetry, which is the subject of the present collection of essays. Some of the earliest poems may well have been written at a time when northern England held the intellectual leadership of Europe. The approach is holistic, investigating important issues in the manuscripts that affect the integrity of the texts to be studied or the way they relate to each other, examining metrical issues that affect the way the poems are appreciated for their compositional skill, studying particular textual problems that require elucidation or even emendation to make the meaning clear, and finally offering readings of particular poems focussing on themes that are central to Old English poetry. A postscript examines Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky, which is presented as a ‘Stanza of Anglo-Saxon Poetry’.

Introduction Section A Manuscripts Foreword 1. The Place of Judith in the Beowulf-Manuscript 2. The Vercelli Book Revisited 3. The Structure of the Junius Manuscript: Places of Possible Loss 4. On the Incomplete Ending of Daniel and the Addition of Christ and Satan to MS Junius 11 Section B Metre Foreword 5. Some Aspects of the Interaction between Verse Grammar and Metre in Old English Poetry 6. On the Ro?le of Some Adverbs in Old English Verse Grammar 7. The Metrical Epilogue to the Alfredian Pastoral Care: A Postscript from Junius 8. Franciscus Junius and the Versification of Judith Section C Textual Problems Foreword 9. Beowulf 214: eolet Aet ende 10. Andreas 733b 11. Christ III 1476b 12. The Seafarer 62b, anfloga: Lone Ranger or Away-day Flier? 13. Genesis B 623-5: Part of the Speech to Eve? 14. Exodus 480: mod gerymde 15. Exodus 265: Aegnian 16. Daniel 276 Section D Readings Foreword 17. Loyalty and Obedience in the Old English Genesis and the Interpolation of Genesis B into Genesis A 18. Sengeley in synglere. The Language of the Loner: From Splendid Isolation to 'Individual' in Early English Poetry? 19. The Cross in Exodus 20. Easter, the Death of Saint Guthlac and the Liturgy for Holy Saturday in Felix's Vita and the Old English Guthlac B 21. Judith and the Woman Hero Section E Postscript 22. From Jabberwocky back to Old English: Nonsense, Anglo-Saxon and Oxford Index

By (author) Peter Lucas

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