The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0192835475 ISBN 13: 9780192835475

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1999

Riassunto

Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all superb poems. Here is a word picture of a people who came to these islands as pagans and yet within two hundred years had become Christians, to such effect that England was the centre of missionary endeavour and, for a time, the heart of European civilization. Kevin Crossley-Holland places poems and prose in context with his skilful interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon world; his translations have been widely acclaimed, and of Beowulf the poet Charles Causley has written, 'the poem has at last found its translator'.

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Includes: The Wanderer; The Seafarer; Beowulf; The Battle of Malden; and other poems, prose passages, tracts, and sermons

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• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192835475
• ISBN 13: 9780192835475
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Redattore: Crossley-Holland Kevin