"Jennifer Lorden reveals the importance of affective devotion in the hybrid poetics of the earliest English poetry. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Displaced passions: sympathy and suffering in poems on Christ and the saints; 2. Paradise and the problem of beauty in Old English poetry; 3. Poetics at the end of the world; 4. The poetics of the speaking soul from Old to Middle English; 5. Luue and lyric in England across the conquest; Epilogue.