Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse
Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse re-examines the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and reconsiders the significance of formulaic parallels and the nature of poetic authorship in Old English.
Offering a new vision of much of Old English literary history, Thomas A. Bredehoft traces a tradition of ''literate-formulaic'' composition in the period and conten...
Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse re-examines the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and reconsiders the significance of formulaic parallels and the nature of poetic authorship in Old English.
Offering a new vision of much of Old English literary history, Thomas A. Bredehoft traces a tradition of ''literate-formulaic'' composition in the period and conten...
