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The Poetry of Suffering in Book V of \Troilus\
Chickering examines several passages in Book V of Chaucer's \"Troilus and Criseyde\" in which Troilus' suffering is intensified by rhetorical figures of compression and repetition and by cascades of rhyme sounds within the rhyme royal form, focusing mainly on Troilus' speeches at lines 218-38, 540-53, and 1674-1722 and their contexts.
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Some Contexts for Bede's Death-Song
When read in the contexts of psychology, theology, and Old English poetry, Bede's Death-Song can be confidently valued as a fine poem, and not merely as venerable wisdom. The design of this eighth-century poem shows substantial correlations with the design of the Epistola Cuthberti, in which it appears. The letter appears to combine eyewitness report with hagiographic conventions. Ambivalence at meeting one's Judge is expressed both in its narrative and the poem; troubled feelings are balanced by a certain faith. Scriptural echoes reveal Cuthbert's conscious intention to present the Bede of the letter as an imitator of Christ. Comparison with other Old English poetic treatments of Bede's theme shows that the poem fully exploits the artistic potential of the vernacular tradition.
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Poetic Exuberance in the Old English Judith
Most recent criticism ofJudithconsiders the poem in terms of something else. Often it is the Vulgate story of Judith, or Ælfric’s homily upon it.¹ Or the poem can be mapped against Anglo-Saxon politics, thanks to a comment made by Ælfric in his Letter to Sigeweard that equates the Assyrians with the Danes.² If one takes the text as a fragment, which it certainly is, one can hypothesize about the lost whole or treat its fragmentation and the fragmentation of Holofernes as metaphorically interchangeable. Once a critic goes outside the poem and puts it into context with other materials,
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