The poetics of old English
By: by Tiffany Beechy.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780754669173; 9780754696209
Subjects: English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Versification; English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alfred's prose Boethius and the poetics of Anglo-Saxon exposition: Alfred and the problem of old English prose; title: Godspel: old English poetics and the vernacular homily; title: Bind and loose: poetics and the word in old English law, charm, and riddle: the binding word and old English charms; Riddles and the word unbound; title: Extraordinary poetics in traditional verse.