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A Feast of Creatures - (Middle Ages) by Craig Williamson (Paperback)
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Highlights
- 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.
- About the Author: Craig Williamson is the Alfred H. and Peggi Bloom Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College.
- 248 Pages
- Poetry, European
- Series Name: Middle Ages
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About the Book
In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson combines his training as a medievalist, anthropologist, and literary critic with his talent as a translator and poet. Here he recasts nearly 100 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.
Book Synopsis
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 battle-singer. In his notes and commentary he gives us possible and probable solutions, sources, and analogues, a shrewd sense of literary play, and traces the literary and cultural contexts in which each riddle may be viewed. In his introduction, Williamson traces for us the history of riddles and riddle scholarship.Review Quotes
"A veritable feast."-- "Verbatim"
"Captivating."-- "Choice"
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.Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .75 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 248
Series Title: Middle Ages
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: European
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Format: Paperback
Author: Craig Williamson
Language: English
Street Date: September 14, 2011
TCIN: 91353123
UPC: 9780812211290
Item Number (DPCI): 247-01-0619
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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