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Article: Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry.
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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Peter Clemoes, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 12 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). xvii + 523 pp. ISBN 0-521-3071 1-2. 45-00 [pounds sterling].
The year 1995 was an exceptional one for Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England. five books were published, of which two were literary studies of Old English poetry. Peter Clemoes and Carol Braun Pasternack adopt radically different angles of approach, and yet, surprising as it may seem, they have the same goal: the identification of the informing tradition in a literature which is so culturally different from our own, and detailed analysis of how that tradition is given voice in poetry. The ...