The Construction of Christian Poetry in Old English (Literary Structures)

SIU Press, 1975; no additional printings indicated. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; cloth boards show only very minor edge-wear, gilt titling on spine remains bold and bright; text also very good. Unclipped dust jacket ($8.95) lightly edge-worn, moderately age-toned at edges. From a private collection. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

From Publisher:

Focusing on the works of Cynewulf, the Caedmonic school, and the great Beowulf-poet, John Gardner traces the development of Anglo-Saxon Christian poetic style.This latest contribution to a distinguished new series is a scholar-novelist-poet s analysis of allegorical modes in a few major poems from England s great age of allegory, the seventh century to, roughly, the eleventh.What John Gardner is out to understand and describe is not so much the meaning of particular poemsthough his study inevitably deals, to some extent, with meaning and offers critical interpretationsbut how the various kinds of Anglo-Saxon allegory work, what happens when several completely different kinds of allegory are brought together in one poem (as in "Beowulf"), and what it is that makes the different kinds of allegory not just intellectually but emotionally effective.Gardner asks the right questions from both the scholar s and the novelist s points of view, which turn out to be important for an understanding of the whole Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition."

Product Info

ISBN: 0809307057

ISBN-13: 9780809307050

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press

Year: 1975-05-01

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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