Cynewulf
Subtitle: Basic Readings (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780815317586
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 500 to c 1000; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Old English Poetry (Ca. 450-1100); Cynewulf; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; England; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Poetry; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in; Christian poetry, English (Old; Christian poetry, English (Old); Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism
First sentence: Little can be said with assurance about who Cynewulf was, or where he lived, or when-or even what-he wrote, yet Daniel Calder rightly observes that "historical" and "biographical" studies comprise the bulk of what scholars have done with Cynewulf."