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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Becoming a poet in Anglo-Saxon England
  name:
    name part: Thornbury, Emily Victoria
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 322 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction: how can we know about Anglo-Saxon poets? -- 1. What was a poet? -- 2. Who became poets? -- 3. The poet in the community -- 4. The poet alone -- 5. Spectral communities -- Afterword: a way of happening -- Appendix I. A handlist of named authors of Old English or Latin verse in Anglo-Saxon England -- Appendix II. Skalds working in Anglo-Saxon England.
  note: Emily V. Thornbury.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    topic: English poetry
    temporal: Old English, ca. 450-1100
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  classification: PR203 .T46 2014
  classification: 829/.1009
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 88
  identifier: 9781107051980 (Hardback)
  identifier: 1107051983 (Hardback)
  identifier: 2013026730
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130730
    record change date: 20151206102106.0
    record identifier: in00003475374