Author: Ruth Ashby
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 0802852416
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Long ago, when hardly anyone knew how to read or write, people recited stories by heart. They sat around the hearth at night, telling of heroes and monsters, great battles fought, and fortunes made and lost. On feast days, they passed the harp around the room so that everyone could sing a poem. But when the harp reached Caedmon, his thoughts dried up. He opened his mouth and nothing at all came out. It was embarrassing. No wonder he hated poetry. A quiet man who loved tending his cows, Caedmon couldn't recite poetry because he thought he had no stories to tell. Then after one especially upsetting experience, Caedmon stormed home, fell asleep in the barn, and began to dream. That night, everything changed for Caedmon . . . With jovial, heartwarming illustrations and beautifully illuminated letters, this tale is based on the true story of Caedmon, the seventh-century cowherd who became known as the first English poet.
Caedmon's Song
Author: Ruth Ashby
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 0802852416
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Long ago, when hardly anyone knew how to read or write, people recited stories by heart. They sat around the hearth at night, telling of heroes and monsters, great battles fought, and fortunes made and lost. On feast days, they passed the harp around the room so that everyone could sing a poem. But when the harp reached Caedmon, his thoughts dried up. He opened his mouth and nothing at all came out. It was embarrassing. No wonder he hated poetry. A quiet man who loved tending his cows, Caedmon couldn't recite poetry because he thought he had no stories to tell. Then after one especially upsetting experience, Caedmon stormed home, fell asleep in the barn, and began to dream. That night, everything changed for Caedmon . . . With jovial, heartwarming illustrations and beautifully illuminated letters, this tale is based on the true story of Caedmon, the seventh-century cowherd who became known as the first English poet.
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 0802852416
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Long ago, when hardly anyone knew how to read or write, people recited stories by heart. They sat around the hearth at night, telling of heroes and monsters, great battles fought, and fortunes made and lost. On feast days, they passed the harp around the room so that everyone could sing a poem. But when the harp reached Caedmon, his thoughts dried up. He opened his mouth and nothing at all came out. It was embarrassing. No wonder he hated poetry. A quiet man who loved tending his cows, Caedmon couldn't recite poetry because he thought he had no stories to tell. Then after one especially upsetting experience, Caedmon stormed home, fell asleep in the barn, and began to dream. That night, everything changed for Caedmon . . . With jovial, heartwarming illustrations and beautifully illuminated letters, this tale is based on the true story of Caedmon, the seventh-century cowherd who became known as the first English poet.
The Unstill Ones
Author: Miller Oberman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691176833
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, The Unstill Ones takes readers into a timeless, shadow-filled world where new poems sound ancient, and ancient poems sound new. Award-winning scholar-poet Miller Oberman’s startlingly fresh translations of well-known and less familiar Old English poems often move between archaic and contemporary diction, while his original poems frequently draw on a compressed, tactile Old English lexicon and the powerful formal qualities of medieval verse. Shaped by Oberman’s scholarly training in poetry, medieval language, translation, and queer theory, these remarkable poems explore sites of damage and transformation, both new and ancient. “Wulf and Eadwacer,” a radical new translation of a thousand-year-old lyric, merges scholarly practice with a queer- and feminist-inspired rendering, while original poems such as “On Trans” draw lyrical connections between multiple processes of change and boundary crossing, from translation to transgender identity. Richly combining scholarly rigor, a finely tuned contemporary aesthetic, and an inventiveness that springs from a deep knowledge of the earliest forms of English, The Unstill Ones marks the emergence of a major new voice in poetry.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691176833
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English, The Unstill Ones takes readers into a timeless, shadow-filled world where new poems sound ancient, and ancient poems sound new. Award-winning scholar-poet Miller Oberman’s startlingly fresh translations of well-known and less familiar Old English poems often move between archaic and contemporary diction, while his original poems frequently draw on a compressed, tactile Old English lexicon and the powerful formal qualities of medieval verse. Shaped by Oberman’s scholarly training in poetry, medieval language, translation, and queer theory, these remarkable poems explore sites of damage and transformation, both new and ancient. “Wulf and Eadwacer,” a radical new translation of a thousand-year-old lyric, merges scholarly practice with a queer- and feminist-inspired rendering, while original poems such as “On Trans” draw lyrical connections between multiple processes of change and boundary crossing, from translation to transgender identity. Richly combining scholarly rigor, a finely tuned contemporary aesthetic, and an inventiveness that springs from a deep knowledge of the earliest forms of English, The Unstill Ones marks the emergence of a major new voice in poetry.
Cædmon's Hymn
Author: Caedmon
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840442
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Accompanying CD-ROM, intended for closer research, supplements the text of the print volume with colour digital facsimiles and interactive tools only possible in the electronic medium -- p. [i].
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840442
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Accompanying CD-ROM, intended for closer research, supplements the text of the print volume with colour digital facsimiles and interactive tools only possible in the electronic medium -- p. [i].
The Junius Manuscript
Author: Caedmon
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231515955
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Junius Manuscript
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231515955
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Junius Manuscript
The History of the English Church and People
Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780760765517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780760765517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Singing Bowl
Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848255411
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Malcolm Guites eagerly awaited second poetry collection 'The Singing Bowl' takes is name from the breathtakingly beautiful opening poem, a sonnet which connects poetry and prayer. It includes poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in contemporary life; sonnets inspired by Francis and other outstanding saints; poems centred on love (which might be used at weddings), others on parting and mortality (which might be used at funerals). A further group, Jamming your Machine, searches for the life of the spirit in the midst of the modern era and includes an ode to an iphone.
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848255411
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Malcolm Guites eagerly awaited second poetry collection 'The Singing Bowl' takes is name from the breathtakingly beautiful opening poem, a sonnet which connects poetry and prayer. It includes poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in contemporary life; sonnets inspired by Francis and other outstanding saints; poems centred on love (which might be used at weddings), others on parting and mortality (which might be used at funerals). A further group, Jamming your Machine, searches for the life of the spirit in the midst of the modern era and includes an ode to an iphone.
The Caedmon Poems
Author: Damian Love
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781898281719
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781898281719
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Early Poems of William Morris
Author: William Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Juliana
Author: Saint Juliana (of Nicomedia)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Earliest English Poems
Author: Michael Alexander
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520015043
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520015043
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description