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How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems by Daniel Donoghue

How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems

Daniel Donoghue

248 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

history poetry informative medium-paced
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The scribes of early medieval England wrote out their vernacular poems using a format that looks primitive to our eyes because it lacks the familiar visual cues of verse lineation, marks of punctuation, and capital letters. The paradox is that scr...

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