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	Old English Course Information
		The central objective of this course for you is to gain enough understanding of the linguistic structures of Old English that you will be able immediately after the course to read just about any passage of Old English prose using a dictionary.
		You should also be able to start to read Old English poetry, especially the simpler passages.
		These range from the easily definable ("To master the case system of Old English as it applies to nouns, adjectives, and pronouns") to the more nebulous ("To gain an understanding of cultural difference as manifested in a remote ancestor of contemporary Western culture.").
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/eduweb/engl401/info.htm (297 words)

	Anglo-Saxon literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Old English began, in written form, as a practical necessity in the aftermath of the Danish invasions—church officials were concerned that because of the drop in Latin literacy no one could read their work.
		Old English poetry was an oral craft, our understanding of it in written form is incomplete—for example we know that the poet (referred to as a Scop) could be accompanied by a harp—there may be other audio traditions we are not aware of.
		Because Old English was one of the first vernacular languages to be written down, nineteenth century scholars searching for the roots of European "national culture" (see Romantic Nationalism) took special interest in studying Anglo-Saxon literature, and Old English became a regular part of university curriculum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_English_poetry (3396 words)

	More Old English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Old English poetry is based on principles quite unlike that of modern English poetry.
		Old English poets did not use rhyme; they did not count the number of syllables in a line.
		The oldest attested Old English poem is traditionally Caedmon's Hymn.
	www.uta.edu /english/tim/courses/4301w98/oct26.html (561 words)

	Originality in Old English Poetry
		Of the 380 lines in the Old English Fenix which are based on the Latin poem, 145, follow the original, as well as some seven parts of half-lines.
		English poet has bettered the Lactantianlordship over the race of birds, and inhabited the waste places with them for a time.
		The English poet has altered this figure to that of the seed sown in the ground and coming to new life in the spring.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/Emerson.htm (1349 words)

	Old English Metrics
		Old English poetry uses a form common to all Old Germanic languages.
		It was later to influence the 'alliterative revival', though the Middle English meter differed from the Old English forms.
		Old English poetry is alliterative, with each verse or half-line containing four positions.
	www.dnaco.net /~sirbill/OldEnglishMetrics.html (966 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Old English Heroic Poetry
		The term “heroic poetry” is attributed to narrative poetic texts of different ancient, medieval and modern cultures, which celebrate the valorous deeds, brave fights or physical tests of exceptional figures both legendary and historic.
		Rather, Old English heroic poetry is preoccupied with giving an idealized view of the king and his noblemen or retainers.
		Old English heroic poetry falls into two categories: those poems presenting figures and events of the so-called “heroic age” and those describing contemporary events.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1272 (2089 words)

	Building Blocks of Old English Poetry
		Alliteration,in Old English poetry, is the repetition of initial sounds in stressed syllables.
		Old English poetry tends to use Sievers’ types A, D, and E most often.
		There are even modern English verse translations of Old English poetry, but keep in mind that most of these do not follow the rules of Old English verse.
	cuip.uchicago.edu /~iabrams/OE_Rap_port/oepoetryworksheet.htm (1202 words)

	Editing Old English Poetry: Reconciling Orality and Text
		The degree of literacy in Anglo-Saxon England and the role of orality in OE poetry are oft-debated subjects.
		Consequently, OE poetry is often seen as deriving from a traditiona oral style, with written records used as a means of preservation for a culture that was in the process of becoming increasingly literate.
		The orality of OE poetry is often overlooked in modern editing practices.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/6361arnold.htm (1170 words)

	Old English Poetry (from English literature) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Old English, the language of Beowulf, is the source of modern English.
		Although Old English differed greatly from the language of today, much of the vigor and precision of modern English comes from the many Anglo-Saxon forms still used.
		English is the national language of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
	0-www.britannica.com.library.unl.edu /ebi/article-200324 (968 words)

	middangeard Old English Poetry Pages
		Old English in a New Perspective: Introduction to the Poetry of the Anglo-Saxons
		The result was an unique blend of old and new beliefs, which co-existed side by side for centuries, until the old eventually gave way to the overwhelming power of evangelium, or Gospel (OE god spell, the good story).
		The old works of giants, or the cunning works of giants; this is how the Anglo-Saxons called the ruins they found in the land which they invaded, the remains of the buildings of a civilization once so splendid.
	www.rado.sk /old_english (836 words)

	Old English Heroic Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The concept of heroic poetry has been at the centre of many scholars' interest in the interpretation of Old English literature, especially with regard to "Secular Heroic Poetry", "The Christian Saint as Hero" and even "Christ as Poetic Hero" (Greenfield).
		Thus the 'received interpretation' of Old English literature regards Beowulf and Maldon as "the only Old English poems in which the heroic attitude is fully realized and described".
		We will reflect upon various critical approaches to Old English literature and discuss the concept of heroism and the related genre of heroic poetry in general terms.
	user.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /~holteir/Teaching/Old_English_Heroic_Poetry/old_english_heroic_poetry.html (416 words)

	Building Blocks of Old English Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This worksheet is designed to give you some information about the structure of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) poetry and how this structure fits together.
		Alliteration, in Old English poetry, is the repetition of initial sounds in stressed syllables.
		This rule is iron-clad; if you break it, you are not doing Old English poetry correctly.
	www.sp.uconn.edu /~mwh95001/oepoetry.htm (1151 words)

	Poetry X » Articles » "Old English Poetry" by Edgar Allan Poe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This quaintness is, in fact, a very powerful adjunct to ideality, but in the case in question it arises independently of the author’s will, and is altogether apart from his intention.
		The old English muse was frank, guileless, sincere and although very learned, still learned without art.
		His collected poems may be found in the Poetry X Archives.
	articles.poetryx.com /60 (922 words)

	Old English Aloud
		Old English poetry was meant to be declaimed aloud before an audience, the poet, or Scop, being both a creative and a performing artist.
		Old English poetry was very formulaic, with the same patterns being re-used with variations time and again.
		Another striking feature of Old English poetry was the use of many metaphors or kennings for common subjects: The sea could be referred to as the 'whale's way', 'gannet's bath', 'swan's riding' and so on.
	www.kami.demon.co.uk /gesithas/readings/readings.html (713 words)

	Old English Poetry - The Seafarer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This lesson is the fifth in the Old English: Anglo Saxon Riddles, Poems & Records unit, the second unit in the full course sequence for English Literature.
		National Standard for the Teaching of English #2 - Students read a wide range of literature from many periods in many genres to build an understanding of the many dimensions (e.g., philosophical, ethical, aesthetic) of human experience.
		These activities are designed as part of a larger GLC unit entitled Old English: Anglo Saxon Beginnings, and a full unit test may be found there which incorporates several multiple choice questions intended to evaluate understanding of these lessons.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /builderv03/lptools/lpshared/displaylp.asp?lpid=14180 (1217 words)

	BUBL LINK: English poetry
		Collection of poetry by British and Irish women written between 1789, the onset of the French Revolution, and 1832, the passage of the Reform Act, a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period.
		Profile of the English poet comprising a biography, a chronology (1795 - 1821), examples of his poetry including the odes of 1819 and a selection of sonnets, portraits of himself and his family, and transcripts of letters written to Fanny Brawne among others.
		A chronological history of English poetry, from the early modern English of the Renaissance, 17th century and Augustan periods, though the romantic, Victorian, Georgian and modern eras, and covering the beat generation and postmodern works.
	bubl.ac.uk /link/e/englishpoetry.htm (1364 words)

	Old Poets, by popularity at Old Poetry
		Marriott, Edgar became known for his witty dittys such as The Lion and Albert, Aggie the Elephant, and The Magna Carta, which were immortalized in popular monologues by actor Stanley Holloway.
		John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and a major figure in the Romantic movement, was born in 1795 in Moorfields, London.
		A sensitive person who tended to be a bit of a perfectionist she was what many would consider a model daughter and student - popular, a straight A student, always winning the best prizes.
	oldpoetry.com /oauthor/list (1316 words)

	Old English literature and culture resources
		This section is an excellent introduction to the period of English history dating from the mid-fifth century to the mid-eleventh century, including primary sources, bibliographies and resources for teaching.
		The Dictionary of Old English is an historical dictionary in the tradition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
		Three poems are presented in both Old English and with a Modern English translation: Deor, The Funeral of Scyld Scefing and The Battle of Brunanburh.
	www.library.adelaide.edu.au /guide/hum/english/E_Old.html (4784 words)

	English 403: Old English Poetry
		In addition, students would be well advised to consider purchasing an Old English dictionary such as the Clark Hall and Merritt dictionary mentioned on the English 401 Web site.
		Please note that class discussion in English 403 is a written and not an oral component of the course assignments: we will retain a full record of every submission you make to the listserv, and your grade will be based on the totality of your record of contributions.
		The penalty routinely recommended by the English Department for documented plagiarism is failure of the course in which the offence occurred; academic probation is also routinely applied at the Faculty level.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/eduweb/engl403 (1186 words)

	The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The revised second edition of The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry (2000) is the text used on the CD.
		Since the appearance of The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry in 1994, an electronic facsimile of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501 has been planned.
		In July of 1996 very high resolution digital images of the manuscript were made at the University of Exeter; each archived image, now housed at the University of Melbourne, is approximately 100 MB in size.
	www.evellum.com /exeter (395 words)

	SULAIR: Medieval Studies: Old English
		Cathy Ball has a thorough discussion with links for Old English and Icelandic fonts on her Old English pages.
		A bibliography of publications on Old English literature to the end of 1972: using the collections of E.E. Ericson.
		A microfiche concordance to Old English: The list of texts and index of editions / compiled by Antonette Di Paolo Healey and Richard L. Venezky.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/medieval/oes.html (1348 words)

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		The York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry
		The York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry (henceforth the York Poetry Corpus) is a selection of poetic texts from the Old English Section of the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts (henceforth the Helsinki Corpus), annotated to facilitate searches on lexical items and syntactic structure.
		The scheme was based on the one developed at the University of Pennsylvania for the second edition of the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, and it is the same as the one used for the York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English (under construction at the University of York).
	www-users.york.ac.uk /%7Elang18/pcorpus.html (566 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Textuality of Old English Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The modern reader knows Old English poetry as a discrete number of poems, set up and printed in units punctuated as modern sentences, and with titles inserted by modern editors.
		Carol Braun Pasternack constructs a reading of the poetry that takes into account the format of the verse as it exists in the manuscripts.
		In a detailed analysis, which takes up issues current in poststructuralist theory, she argues that the idea of "verse sequences" should replace the "poem" and "implied tradition"...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521465494 (247 words)

	"Ring Verse" in Old English
		B 971) had been used in the original binding of a fourteenth-century collection of French romances; B 971 was discovered in the course of rebinding the romance collection (itself of limited interest!).
		Old English verbs in the subjunctive are marked in the translation by "(may)".
		It is unsure whether this manuscript represents the original adaptation of the "Ring Verse" into Old English, or is a copy of an earlier work.
	www.carlaz.com /tolkien/oe_ringverse.html (633 words)

	Murray's Old English Poetry Project
		In January 2005, it occurred to me that it might be useful if the complete corpus of Old English poetry were available to students and scholars on the Web in a form that provided clickable glosses and annotations rather than just the bare text.
		The Old English text contained in those volumes was keyboarded in the mid-1960s to make a machine-readable file by two employees of IBM Research, Geraldine Barrett and Marcella Duggan, as part of the work towards the Bessinger and Smith Concordance to the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1978—see Preface).
		A machine-readable version of the poetic corpus was in use at the Dictionary of Old English project at the University of Toronto at some point well prior to the publication of the microfiche Concordance in 1980.
	homepages.ucalgary.ca /~mmcgilli/ASPR (622 words)

	Eliot, Charles W., ed. The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1909–1917
		Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
		Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, The Furies and Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus
		On Friendship, On Old Age and Letters, by Cicero
	www.bartleby.com /hc (742 words)

	106-029 Introduction to Old English B: Poetry
		This subject is an introduction to the language and literature of the Anglo-Saxons from 750-1150, focusing on both prose and poetry, which is read in the original.
		Students will be taught advanced Old English grammar and syntax, and will examine medieval poetic and rhetorical theory.
		On completion of the subject students should have acquired a sound linguistic knowledge of Old English and should also have developed a sense of the significance of Medieval literature to the history, and further study, of English literature and language.
	www.unimelb.edu.au /HB/subjects/106-029.html (276 words)

	Old English poetry
		The modern English letters that are the counterparts for the runes are included.
		For example, the Old English pronounced 'sc' as an 'sh', so words like 'scip' (which looks to us like 'skip' or 'sip') is pronounced 'ship'-- and in Old English a scip was a boat, just as it is today.
		The þ and ð are both different representations of the Old English letter called 'thorn', and stands for the 'th' sound.
	www.ontheqt.org /fiction/yrawen/tsg/oep.htm (2278 words)

	Powell's Books - Representation and design :tracing a hermeneutics of Old English poetry by Pauline E. Head
		Examines Old English poetry from the point of view of its interpretation, drawing on Anglo-Saxon pictorial art as a model for the interaction of representation and design.
		Representation and Design examines Old English poetry from the point of view of its interpretation, beginning with the assumption that Anglo-Saxon concepts of reading were probably very different from those that dominate our own literary culture.
		The book insists on the semantic interaction of representation and design, two aspects of Old English poetry that traditionally have been examined separately, and draws on Anglo-Saxon pictorial art as a model throughout.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=16-0791432033-0 (308 words)

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