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God's exiles and English verse : on the Exeter anthology of Old English poetry
- Title
- God's exiles and English verse : on the Exeter anthology of Old English poetry / John D. Niles.
- Author
- Niles, John D.
- Publication
- Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xi, 288 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This monograph is a critical study of the medieval manuscript held in Exeter Cathedral Library, popularly known as 'The Exeter Book'. Recent scholarship, including the standard edition of the text, published by UEP in 2000 (2 ed'n 2006), has re-named the manuscript 'The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry'. The book gives us intelligent, sensitive literary criticism, profound readings of all of the poems of the Anthology.0'God's Exiles and English Verse' is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. By approaching the Exeter codex as a whole, the book seeks to establish a sound footing for the understanding of any and all of its parts, seen as devout yet cosmopolitan expressions of late Anglo-Saxon literary culture.0The poems of the Exeter Book have not before been approached primarily from a codicological perspective. They have not before been read as an integrated expression of a monastic poetic: that is to say, as a refashioning of the medium of Old English verse so as to serve as an emotionally powerful, intellectually challenging vehicle for Christian doctrine and moral instruction.
- Subject
- Exeter book
- 450-1100
- English poetry > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism
- Manuscripts, English (Old) > England > Exeter > History
- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
- Religious poetry > History and criticism
- Religious poetry
- English poetry > Old English
- Manuscripts, English (Old)
- England > Exeter
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-275) and indexes.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6673
- ISBN
- 190581609X
- 9781905816095
- OCLC
- 1022201545
- Author
- Niles, John D., author.
- Title
- God's exiles and English verse : on the Exeter anthology of Old English poetry / John D. Niles.
- Publisher
- Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-275) and indexes.
- Chronological Term
- 450-1100
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6673