Andy Orchard, Orchard Andy

The Poetic Art of Aldhelm

Herausgeber: Keynes, Simon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A substantial study of the Latin poetry of Aldhelm, 'the first English man of letters'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9780521450904
• ISBN-10: 052145090X
• Artikelnr.: 21826987

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
Preface
List of short titles and abbreviations
Sigla of scholars cited
1. Aldhelm's life and verse
2. Aldhelm and the Anglo-Latin octosyllable
3. Aldhelm's hexameter verse style and its origins
4. Aldhelm's remembered reading in verse
Appendix 4.1: Parallel diction in Aldhelm's sources
5. After Aldhelm: the Anglo-Latin legacy
Appendix 5.1: Parallel diction in Aldhelm's Anglo-Latin heirs
Appendix 5.2: a statistical survey of Anglo-Latin verse
Bibliography
Index.