Life Course in Old English Poetry

"The first book-length study of the whole lifespan in Old English verse, exploring how poets depicted varied paths through life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--

List of contents

Introduction: The Poetics of the Life Course; 1. Taking Shape: Early Life in the Exeter Book Riddles; 2. Becoming Useful: Young and Mature Adulthood in Three Verse Saints' Lives and Judith; 3. Outliving Others: Old Age in Beowulf and Cynewulfian Epilogues; 4. Getting Wasted: Deathly Conditions in Wisdom Catalogues and Doomsday Poetry; Conclusion: The Rhyming Poem.

About the author

Harriet Soper is Simon and June Li Fellow in English Literature at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, where she teaches Old and Middle English literature and the English language. She has previously been a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.

Summary

The first book-length study of the whole lifespan in Old English verse, exploring how poets depicted varied paths through life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Foreword

The first book-length study of the whole lifespan in Old English verse, exploring how poets depicted varied paths through life.

Product details

• Authors: Harriet Soper, Harriet (University of Oxford) Soper
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2023
• EAN: 9781009315111
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0931511-1
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Germanic and Scandinavian languages, c 400 to c 1066 (Anglo-Saxon period), Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval