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| Genre/Form: | Modernized versions |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kennedy, Charles W. (Charles William), 1882-1969. Earliest English poetry. London, New York [etc] Oxford University Press, 1943 (OCoLC)573953263 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles W Kennedy |
| OCLC Number: | 1316164 |
| Description: | viii, 375 p. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Germanic tradition -- Continental backgrounds -- Beowulf -- The elegies -- The riddles and gnomic verse -- The Cædmonian poems -- The signed poems of Cynewulf -- Poetry in the Cynewulfian manner -- The religious heroic tale -- Christian allegory -- Minor religious poems -- The historic battle poems -- Appendix: The Old English manuscripts; The Cynewulfian signatures; The 'storm' Riddles. |
| Responsibility: | with illustrative translations, by Charles W. Kennedy. |
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