Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Poems, part II. Index to proper names and songs. Glossary
Poems ; Index to Proper Names and Songs, Glossary
Author: William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William Shakespeare, with Annotations and a General Introduction by Sidney Lee ...
Author: William ShakespeareThe Song of Roland and Other Poems of Charlemagne
Author: Simon GauntPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199655545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Song of Roland offers fascinating insights into medieval ideas about heroism, manhood, religion, race, & nationhood which were foundational for modern European culture. It is the oldest known surviving major work of French literature based on the Battle of Roncevaux in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne.
The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
A Bibliography of Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922
Author: Arthur Garfield KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English philology
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
"Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems
Author: Craig WilliamsonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812204409
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious. And in Craig Williamson's splendid new version, this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreter. Williamson's Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer," the heroic "Battle of Maldon," the visionary "Dream of the Rood," the mysterious and heart-breaking "Wulf and Eadwacer," and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles. Accompanied by a foreword by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and archaeology, and Williamson's introductions to the individual poems as well as his essay on translating Old English, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead hall to share an exile's lament or herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom, to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, the world becomes a place of rare wonder in Williamson's lines. Were his idiom not so modern, we might almost think the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing after a silence of a thousand years.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Bruce
Author: John BarbourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description