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allegory interpretation
Anglo-Saxon art and literature
Anglo-Saxon Britain
Anglo-Saxon culture
Anglo-Saxon history
Anglo-Saxon literary criticism
Anglo-Saxon Poems
Anglo-Saxon Poet
Anglo-Saxon politics
Anglo-Saxon religion
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Author_Stanley B. Greenfield
Beowulf Poet
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Clausal Variation
Earliest English Poems
English Poems
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Exeter Book
Grammatical Parallelism
Grendel's Mother
Grendel’s Mother
Holy Men
Husband's Message
Husband’s Message
Intrinsic Genre
Lucy's Death
Lucy’s Death
medieval English literature
Mod Micel
Old English poetry critical frameworks
philological approaches
poetic diction analysis
Rare Linguist
Saxon Britain
Saxon culture
Saxon history
Sir Gawain
Stressed Syllable
Transitory Life
Verse
verse form structure
Verse Line
Violating
Wife's Lament
Wife’s Lament
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781032543062
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Aug 2023
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Interpretation of Old English Poems (1972) is a challenging approach in the critical appreciation of Old English poems. Professor Greenfield argues in particular against two inhibiting orientations in criticism of Anglo-Saxon poetry: an insensitive and too-narrowly defined historicism, and a blinkered philological tradition. He suggests ways in which the practical criticism of Old English poetry and poems can be conducted, and provides the means for a student to form his own critical approach. The book is particularly challenging in that it brings literary criticism into a field which has hitherto belonged largely to historians and linguists.
