God's exiles and English verse : on the Exeter anthology of old English poetry /: on the Exeter anthology of old English poetry. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John D. Niles.
• Authors: Niles, John D
• Contents: Part One: Reading the Anthology in its Historical Context ; Monastic Poetics Scribes, Authors, Compilers, and Readers ; Exeter, Glastonbury, and the Benedictine Reform ; ; Part Two: Reading the Anthology as a Codicological Whole ; An Overview of the Book’s Contents; Principles of order ; The book’s opening parts, Advent Lyrics to Juliana; Voices of wisdom: The Wanderer and related poems ; The voice of the sage: A Father’s Precepts and related poems ; Voices from the Germanic past: Widsith and related poems ; Diversity within unity: the role of simulated speech ; The book’s closing parts, The Panther to the end ; Teaching the Tools of the Poet’s Trade; The Enigmas — a Special Problem? Poetry and Worldview Keywords; Intratextual Hermeneutics; Summary and Conclusions; Appendix 1: A translation of The Wanderer ; Appendix 2: Folio-by-folio contents of the Exeter Anthology ; Appendix 3: Latin genre terms and the poems of the Exeter Anthology
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Exeter : University of Exeter Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 829.1; English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism; Manuscripts, English (Old) -- England -- Exeter -- History; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781905816156
• Related ISBNs: 9781905816149
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