Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Bibliographical Note -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Authorship and Anonymity in Old English Verse -- 1 Manuscript Audiences and Other Audiences -- 2 The Audience for Saxon Songs in the Late Ninth Century -- 3 Literate Poetic Composition in Tenth-Century Classical Poems -- 4 What Has Ælfric to Do with Maldon? -- 5 Eleventh-Century Traditions of Formulaic Composition -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix: Two Unrecognized Late Old English Poems -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Authors, Audiences, and Old English Versere-examines the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and reconsiders the significance of formulaic parallels and the nature of poetic authorship in Old English.

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