| Description |
cxvii, 382 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Anglo Saxon poetic records, a collective edition. III
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| Note |
"The text has been based on the ... facsimile edition of the Exeter book published in 1933, with the introductory chapters by Max Förster, R.W. Chambers, and Robin Flower."--Pref. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page [lxxxix]-cxvii. |
| Contents |
Christ -- Guthlac -- Azarias -- The phoenix -- Juliana -- The wanderer -- The gifts of men -- Precepts -- The seafarer -- Vainglory -- Widsith -- The fortunes of men -- Maxims I -- The order of the world -- The riming poem -- The panther -- The whale -- The partridge -- Soul and body II -- Deor -- Wulf and Eadwacer -- Riddles 1-59 -- The wife's lament -- The judgment day I -- Resignation -- The descent into hell -- Alms-giving -- Pharaoh -- The Lord's prayer I -- Homiletic fragment II -- Riddle 30b -- Riddle 60 -- The husband's message -- The ruin -- Riddles 61-95. |
| Subject |
English poetry -- Old English, approximately 450-1100.
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| Added Author |
Krapp, George Philip, 1872-1934, editor.
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Dobbie, Elliott Van Kirk, 1907-1970, editor.
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