Excerpt from The Fall of Man, or Paradise Lost: Translated in Verse From the Anglo-Saxon
In the following Introduction some observations are offered on the Metre of Caedmon's poetry; and in the Appendix 3. New division of the lines of a portion of the original text is given, in accordance with the observations made in the Introduction.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book provides a contemporary translation of the Old English poem, Caedmon's Fall of Man, a work of particular significance as it is considered to be the earliest surviving work composed in Old English or Anglo-Saxon. The author was a monk and this piece is an epic poem retelling the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. The text brings together multiple perspectives on the story and is written in a heroic style of verse with considerable metrical regularity. The book's extensive critical apparatus also offers the reader valuable historical and literary context. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Old English, Medieval and Biblical literature, and the history of the English language. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Codice articolo 9780282005160_0
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