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A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs
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A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs Hardcover - 1982

by Craig Williamson (Editor); Craig Williamson (Translator)


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  • Title A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs
  • Author Craig Williamson (Editor); Craig Williamson (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, PHILADELPHIA
  • Date September 1, 1982
  • ISBN 9780812278439 / 0812278437
  • Library of Congress subjects Riddles, English (Old), English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100 -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 82004907
  • Dewey Decimal Code 829.1

About the author

Craig Williamson is the Alfred H. and Peggi Bloom Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College. He is editor and translator of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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A Feast of Creatures Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs
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A Feast of Creatures Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs

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E-248: University of Pennsylvania Press. Very Good. 1982. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA. 1982. 248 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In A 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 nightingale, plow, ox, phallic onion, and storm-wind. In lean and taut language he offers us mead disguised as a mighty wrestler, the sword as a celibate thane, the silver wine-cup as a seductress, the horn transformed from head-warrior to ink-belly or… Read More
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A Feast of Creatures : Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs

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