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THE POE T ICS OF O LD E NGLISH To James The Poetics of O ld E nglish TIFFANY BEECHY University of North Florida, USA I ? Tiffany Beechy 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Tiffany Beechy has asserted her right under the C opyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by A shgate Publishing L imited A shgate Publishing C ompany Wey C ourt E ast S uite 420 Union Road 101 C herry S treet F arnham Burlington Surrey, G U9 7PT VT 05401-4405 E ngland U SA tish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Beechy, Tiffany. The poetics of O ld E nglish. 1. E nglish literature – O ld English, ca. 450–1100 – H istory and criticism I. Title 829’.09-dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Beechy, Tiffany The poetics of old English / by Tiffany Beechy. p. cm. I ncludes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6917-3 (hardback: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-7546-9620-9 (ebook) 1. English language—Old English, ca. 450–1100—Versification. 2. English literature O ld English, ca. 450–1100— H istory and criticism. I. Title. P E 2010 —dc22 2009047204 ISBN: 9780754669173 (hbk) ISBN: 9780754696209 (ebk) I C ontents Acknowledgements vi i I ntroduction 1 1 Alfred’s Prose Boethius and the Poetics of A nglo- S axon E xposition 2 1 2 Godspel : Old English Poetics and the Vernacular Homily 3 9 3 Bind and Loose: Poetics and the Word in Old English Law, C harm, and Riddle 7 3 4 Extraordinary Poetics in Traditional Verse 9 9 C onclusion 12 7 Works Cited 13 1 Index 13 9 This page has been left blank intent