A new critical history of Old English literature /

A new critical history of Old English literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Greenfield, Stanley B.
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.
Subject:	English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism. English literature -- Old English. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11140151

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Other authors / contributors:	Calder, Daniel Gillmore. Lapidge, Michael.
ISBN:	9780814738559 0814738559 0814730027 9780814730027 0814730884 9780814730881 9780814732625 0814732623
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-360) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Greenfield, Stanley B. New critical history of Old English literature. New York : New York University Press, 1986

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.