The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf

by Calvin B. Kendall

Book Overview

This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language that the poet inherited from the traditional, oral culture of Anglo-Saxon England.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521393256
• ISBN13: 9780521393256
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"