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God's exiles and English verse : on the Exeter anthology of Old English poetry

Niles, John D., author

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This monograph is a critical study of the medieval manuscript held in Exeter Cathedral Library, popularly known as 'The Exeter Book'. Recent scholarship, including the standard edition of the text, published by UEP in 2000 (2 ed'n 2006), has re-named the manuscript 'The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry'. The book gives us intelligent, sensitive literary criticism, profound readings of all of the poems of the Anthology.0'God's Exiles and English Verse' is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. By approaching the Exeter codex as a whole, the book seeks to establish a sound footing for the understanding of any and all of its parts, seen as devout yet cosmopolitan expressions of late Anglo-Saxon literary culture.0The poems of the Exeter Book have not before been approached primarily from a codicological perspective. They have not before been read as an integrated expression of a monastic poetic: that is to say, as a refashioning of the medium of Old English verse so as to serve as an emotionally powerful, intellectually challenging vehicle for Christian doctrine and moral instruction.

• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Subject: Exeter book. / 450-1100 / English poetry Old English, ca. 450-1100 History and criticism. / Manuscripts, English (Old) England Exeter History. / Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature. / Religious poetry History and criticism. / Religious poetry. / English poetry Old English. / Manuscripts, English (Old) / 18.05 English literature. / England Exeter.
• ISBN: 9781905816095, 190581609X

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