A Study of "The Rhyming Poem": Text, Interpretation, and Christian Context
Description:
The purpose of the research presented here is to discover the central concept of "The Rhyming Poem," an Old English Christian work known only from a 10th-century manuscript, and to establish the poem's natural place in the body of Old English poetry. Existing critical literature shows little agreement about the poem's origin, vocabulary, plot, or first-person narrator, and no single translation has satisfactorily captured a sense of the poem's unity or of the purposeful vision behind it.
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Date:
May 1986
Creator:
Turner, Kandy M. (Kandy Morrow)