Cover of The Textuality of Old English Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England)

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).