A new critical history of Old English literature /
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Author / Creator: | Greenfield, Stanley B. |
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Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, 1986. |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 370 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11140151 |
Table of 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.