Old English Shorter Poems: Wisdom and Lyric: 2 - Rilegato

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0674053060 ISBN 13: 9780674053069

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

The twenty-five poems and eleven metrical charms in this Old English volume offer tantalizing insights into the mental landscape of the Anglo-Saxons.The Wanderer and The Seafarer famously combine philosophical consolation with introspection to achieve a spiritual understanding of life as a journey.The Wife's Lament, The Husband's Message, and Wulf and Eadwacerdirect a subjective lyrical intensity on the perennial themes of love, separation, and the passion for vengeance. From suffering comes wisdom, and these poems find meaning in the loss of fortune and reputation, exile, and alienation. "Woe is wondrously clinging; clouds glide," reads a stoic, matter-of-fact observation in Maxims II on nature's indifference to human suffering. Another form of wisdom emerges in the form of folk remedies, such as charms to treat stabbing pain, cysts, childbirth, and nightmares of witch-riding caused by a dwarf. The enigmatic dialogues ofSolomon and Saturn combine scholarly erudition and proverbial wisdom. Learning of all kinds is celebrated, including the meaning of individual runes inThe Rune Poem and the catalog of legendary heroes in Widsith. This book is a welcome complement to the previously published DOML volumeOld English Shorter Poems, Volume I: Religious and Didactic.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0674053060
• ISBN 13: 9780674053069
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 292
• Redattore: Bjork Robert E.