Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library): 27

by Mary Clayton (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2013

  $32.22

  Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from lyrical to dramatic to narrative and showing great inventiveness, this title features ten anonymous poems demonstrating the extraordinary hybrid that emerges when traditional Germanic verse adapts itself to Christian themes.