The Interpretation Of Old English Poems (Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-Saxon World)

The Interpretation of Old English Poems (1972) is a challenging approach in the critical appreciation of Old English poems. Professor Greenfield argues in particular against two inhibiting orientations in criticism of Anglo-Saxon poetry: an insensitive and too-narrowly defined historicism, and a blinkered philological tradition. He suggests ways in which the practical criticism of Old English poetry and poems can be conducted, and provides the means for a student to form his own critical approach. The book is particularly challenging in that it brings literary criticism into a field which has hitherto belonged largely to historians and linguists.

• | Author: Stanley B. Greenfield
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Aug 10, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 103254306X
• | ISBN-13: 9781032543062