A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1982

A Feast of Creatures

Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs

Edited by: Craig Williamson and Craig Williamson

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204452

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About this book

In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson combines his training as a medievalist, anthropologist, and literary critic with his talent as a translator and poet. Here he recasts nearly 100 Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Author / Editor information

Craig Williamson is the Alfred H. and Peggi Bloom Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College. He is editor and translator of "Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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"Captivating."—Choice

"A veritable feast."—Verbatim

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
CREDITS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Part One
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Part Two
The Riddles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Part Three
NOTES AND COMMENTARY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR NOTES AND COMMENTARY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
INDEX OF SOLUTIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Literature; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: November 29, 2011
ISBN: 9780812204452