A feast of creatures : Anglo-Saxon riddle-songs / edited and translated by Craig Williamson.

InA Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightingal...

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Other Authors: Williamson, Craig
Format: eBook
Language:English
Old English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Series:Middle Ages series.
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