A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa University of Pennsylvania Press 1982
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Item Description:Biographical note: Craig Williamson is the Alfred H. and Peggi Bloom Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College. He is editor and translator of "Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press
Main description: In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson combines his training as a medievalist, anthropologist, and literary critic with his talent as a translator and poet. Here he recasts nearly 100 Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (248 S.)
ISBN:9780812204452
DOI:10.9783/9780812204452

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