Old English Shorter Poems - Religious and Didactic

Informationen zum Autor Christopher A. Jones is Professor of English at The Ohio State University. Klappentext Old English poetry offers a large number of shorter compositions, many of them on explicitly Christian themes. This volume presents twenty-nine of these shorter religious poems composed in Old and early Middle English between the seventh and twelfth centuries. These texts demonstrate the remarkable versatility of early English verse. Zusammenfassung Old English poetry offers a large number of shorter compositions! many of them on explicitly Christian themes. This volume presents twenty-nine of these shorter religious poems composed in Old and early Middle English between the seventh and twelfth centuries. These texts demonstrate the remarkable versatility of early English verse.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher A. Jones
• Assisted by: Christopher A Jones (Editor), Christopher A Jones (Translation), Christopher A. Jones (Translation), Jones Christopher A. (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2012
• EAN: 9780674057890
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05789-0
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > History; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Poetry anthologies (various poets)