Book 2006
The Textuality of Old English Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England)
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- History
- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry
- General
The modern reader knows Old English poetry as a discrete number of poems, each of which has a title (in all cases, inserted by modern editors), a definite beginning (even if it has been lost), a middle and an end (which may again be lost but which still exists as a supposed structural element).