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Author Greenfield, Stanley B

Title A new critical history of Old English literature / Stanley B. Greenfield and Daniel G. Calder ; with a survey of the Anglo-Latin background by Michael Lapidge
Published New York : New York University Press, 1986

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Description 1 online resource (x, 370 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents The Anglo-Latin background -- The Alfredian translations and related ninth-century texts -- Ælfric, Wulfstan, and other late prose -- Legal and scientific prose -- Some remarks on the nature and quality of Old English poetry -- Secular heroic poetry -- The Christian saint as hero -- Old Testament narrative poetry -- Miscellaneous religious and secular poetry -- Lore and wisdom -- Elegiac poetry
Analysis Old English literature - Critical studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-360) and index
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Subject English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Old English
Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
Littérature anglaise -- 450-1100 (vieil anglais) -- Histoire et critique.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Calder, Daniel Gillmore
Lapidge, Michael
ISBN 9780814738559
0814738559