Old English Shorter Poems by Christopher A. Jones - 9780674057890

Harvard University Press

Old English Shorter PoemsAuthor(s): Christopher A. Jones\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674057890, 978-0674057890\nSynopsis\nAlongside famous long works such as Beowulf, Old English poetry offers a large number of shorter compositions, many of them on explicitly Christian themes. This volume of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library presents twenty-nine of these shorter religious poems composed in Old and early Middle English between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Among the texts, which demonstrate the remarkable versatility of early English verse, are colorful allegories of the natural world, poems dedicated to Christian prayer and morality, and powerful meditations on death, judgment, heaven, and hell.\n\nPreviously edited in many different places and in some instances lacking accessible translations, many of these poems have remained little known outside scholarly circles. The present volume a.