Old english shorter poems: volume i
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674057890
Date de publication :
14 mai 2012
Dimensions :
20,3 x 13,3 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Old English poetry offers a large number of shorter compositions, many of them on explicitly Christian themes. This volume presents twenty-nine of these shorter religious poems composed in Old and early Middle English between the seventh and twelfth centuries. These texts demonstrate the remarkable versatility of early English verse.