Focusing on the works of Cynewulf, the Caedmonic school, and the great Beowulf- poet, John Gardner traces the develop ment of Anglo-Saxon Christian poetic style. This latest contribution to a distinguished new series is a scholar-novelist-poet's analysis of allegorical modes in a few ma jor poems from England's great age of allegory, the seventh century to, roughly, the eleventh. What John Gardner is out to under stand and describe is not so much the "meaning" of particular poems--though his study inevitably deals, to ...
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Focusing on the works of Cynewulf, the Caedmonic school, and the great Beowulf- poet, John Gardner traces the develop ment of Anglo-Saxon Christian poetic style. This latest contribution to a distinguished new series is a scholar-novelist-poet's analysis of allegorical modes in a few ma jor poems from England's great age of allegory, the seventh century to, roughly, the eleventh. What John Gardner is out to under stand and describe is not so much the "meaning" of particular poems--though his study inevitably deals, to some extent, with meaning and offers critical interpre tations--but how the various kinds of Anglo-Saxon allegory work, what hap pens when several completely different kinds of allegory are brought together in one poem (as in Beowulf ), and what it is that makes the different kinds of allegory not just intellectually but emotionally effective. Gardner asks the right questions from both the scholar's and the novelist's points of view, which turn out to be important for an understanding of the whole Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition.
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Very Good in Good+ jacket. Size: 9x5x0; SIU Press, 1975; no additional printings indicated. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; cloth boards show only very minor edge-wear, gilt titling on spine remains bold and bright; top edge foxed; text also very good. Unclipped dust jacket ($8.95) lightly edge-worn, moderately age-toned at edges. From a private collection. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Very Good in Good+ jacket. Size: 9x5x0; SIU Press, 1975; no additional printings indicated. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; cloth boards show only very minor edge-wear, gilt titling on spine remains bold and bright; text also very good. Unclipped dust jacket ($8.95) lightly edge-worn, moderately age-toned at edges. From a private collection. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. No edition stated (1975). Cloth binding, 147 pp. Best known for his novels, Gardner was also a stellar scholar of medieval literature. Dustjacket has light fade to spine. Fine in near fine dustjacket.
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