TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thornbury,Emily V.
TI  - Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England
T2  - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
SN  - 9781107280304 (ebook)
AV  - PR203 .T46 2014
U1  - 829/.1009 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Combining historical, literary and linguistic evidence from Old English and Latin, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete picture of who and what pre-Conquest English poets really were. It includes a study of Anglo-Saxon words for 'poet' and the first list of named poets in Anglo-Saxon England. Its survey of known poets identifies four social roles that poets often held - teachers, scribes, musicians and courtiers - and explores the kinds of poetry created by these individuals. The book also offers a new model for understanding the role of social groups in poets' experience: it argues that the presence or absence of a poetic community affected the work of Anglo-Saxon poets at all levels, from minute technical detail to the portrayal of character. This focus on poetic communities provides a new way to understand the intersection of history and literature in the Middle Ages
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107280304
ER  -