Old English Elegies

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Old English Elegies is written by Anne L. Klinck and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773562907 (ISBN 10) and 9780773562905 (ISBN 13).

The nine elegies have all been edited separately between 1933 and 1983. Klinck builds on the extensive previous scholarship in the field and also draws on recently available materials - notably the microfiche Concordances, the first letters of the new Old English Dictionary, and Bruce Mitchell's Old English Syntax - to make new suggestions about problematic words and passages. Going beyond an exploration of the literary potential of individual poems, Klinck examines them as separate manifestations of a common generic impulse: she moves from palaeographical and philological detail to broader literary and cultural considerations and, finally, to a definition of Old English elegy.