Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry

Download or read book Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry written by Peter Clemoes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this fresh appreciation of Old English poetry, with a radically new interpretation that relates the poetry to the entire Anglo-Saxon way of thinking, and to the structures of its society. He proposes a dynamic principle of Old English poetry, very different from the common notion of formulas slotted into poems for stylistic variation. Carefully thought out and elegantly written, this book is also accessible to students: its numerous quotations are accompanied by modern English translations.