The Old English elegies : a critical edition and genre study / Anne L. Klinck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klinck, Anne L., 1943-

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Elegiac poetry, English (Old).

Elegiac poetry, English (Old)--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1992.

Language Note:

Latin

Summary:

The nine elegies have all been edited separately between 1933 and 1983. Klinck builds on the extensive previous scholarship in the field and also draws on recently available materials - notably the microfiche Concordances, the first letters of the new Old English Dictionary, and Bruce Mitchell's Old English Syntax - to make new suggestions about problematic words and passages. Going beyond an exploration of the literary potential of individual poems, Klinck examines them as separate manifestations of a common generic impulse: she moves from palaeographical and philological detail to broader literary and cultural considerations and, finally, to a definition of Old English elegy.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Plates

Introduction

The Poems and the Manuscript

Texts and Textual Notes

The Nature of Elegy in Old English

Some Analogues

Bibliography

Glossary and Word-Index

Notes:

Bibliography: p. [305]-376.

Includes index.

Poems in Old English, and in Latin with English translations.

ISBN:

1-282-85558-1

9786612855580

0-7735-6290-7

OCLC:

243568784