Between languages : the uncooperative text in early Welsh and Old English nature poetry / Sarah Lynn Higley
1993, 1st edition. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425905
ISBN: 0271008768
Physical description; xiv, 314 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; 1. The Natural Analogy: Difficulties, Gaps, and Irritations -- 2. Getting Around the Cipher: Translating the Uncooperative Text -- 3. Metrical and Stylistic Analyses -- 4. Grappling with the Gnomic: Modern and Medieval Concepts of Image and Connection -- 5. The Vanishing Point: Deixis and Conjunction -- 6. The Third Thing: Context as Connection in Gnomic and Nature Poetry -- 7. Intentional Difficulty in Early Welsh Poetry -- 8. Clarity and Obscurity in Old English Poetry -- Afterword: Between Worlds -- Appendix: Selected Texts and Translations. Laments. 1. The Seafarer. 2. The Sick Man (Leper) of Abercuawg. 3. The Song of the Old Man. Gnomes and Nature Poems. 4. Maxims II. 5. Let the Cock's Comb Be Red. 6. Keen the Wind. Enigmas. 7. Wulf and Eadwacer. 8. Angar Kyfyndawt. Subjects; English poetry Old English, ca. 450-1100 Criticism, Textual. Comparative literature English (Old) and Welsh. Comparative literature Welsh and English (Old). Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature. Welsh poetry To 1100 Criticism, Textual. Civilization, Medieval, in literature. Civilization, Celtic, in literature. Nature in literature. Paleography, English. Paleography, Welsh. Welsh poetry To 1100.
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