An introduction to Anglo-Saxon poetry which combines powerful, new translations with lucid commentary, bringing these Old English texts within the reach of the general reader.
"In this study Graham Holderness brings Old English texts and the culture they embody within the reach of the general reader by providing new translations of heroic, elegiac, religious and love verses, translations which span the corpus from Beowulf to The Wife's Lament and brid…
Morrison re-examines the relationship of Hellenistic poetry to Archaic poetry. He demonstrates how Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius developed their primary narrators by exploiting and adapting models from Archaic poets, including Homer and Hesiod, and genres such as 'The H…
This book argues that the best approach to the aesthetic value of much literature of the past is by way of the deliberate meaning--implicit or explicit--that the author invites the reader to share. Ehrenpreis shows that subtlety and indirection do not militate against the didact…
