The Poems of Cynewulf by Charles W. Kennedy
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The Poems of Cynewulf by Charles W. Kennedy, published in 1910. A scholarly edition and translation devoted to the works attributed to Cynewulf, one of the few Old English poets known by name and among the four whose compositions survive. Flourishing in the ninth century—though possibly extending into the late eighth or early tenth—Cynewulf is celebrated for his deeply devotional and reflective religious poetry, which blends Anglo-Saxon heroic style with Christian theology. Kennedy’s work provides textual scholarship and literary analysis of poems traditionally associated with Cynewulf, illuminating their theological themes, poetic structure, and place within the development of Anglo-Saxon Christian literature. An important early twentieth-century contribution to the study of Old English poetry. Hardcover with gilt lettering, showing only the lightest shelfwear to corners and spine ends.
