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Cynewulf
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Cynewulf, probably a Northumbrian or Mercian poet of the late 8th or 9th century. At one time a great number of Old English poems were attributed to him, but modern scholarship restricts attribution to the four poems in the
Exeter Book and the
Vercelli Book which end with his name in runes. The poems are
Juliana,
Elene,
The Fates of the Apostles, and
Christ II (the last is a poem on the Ascension in the Exeter Book placed between poems on the Incarnation and on the Last Judgement, the three together being taken as a composite poem,
Christ).
Elene is the story of the finding of the Cross by St Helena, the mother of the emperor Constantine.
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"Cynewulf and Cyneheard": a woman screams. (feminist reading of a tale from the 9th century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...not to be overlooked. Sigmund Freud "Cynewulf and Cyneheard" is the entry for 755...of the story, see the appendix.) "Cynewulf and Cyneheard" is difficult to translate...other commentators when they describe "Cynewulf and Cyneheard" as "a narrative which...
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Hopkins and Cynewulf: "The Wreck of the Deutschland," "The Windhover," "The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe," and the Christ.
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Cynewulf's Christ is a title given in the mid...eighth century, have been attributed to Cynewulf whose runic signature is inscribed into...attribution of the first and third poems to Cynewulf. (2) The "Advent" verses are a series...
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A reference to martyrdom in Cynewulf's ascension poem (Christ II, 679a).(Essays)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...the second part of his Christ poem, Cynewulf enumerates various talents granted by...fall. The gifts of men as described by Cynewulf provide information about Anglo-Saxon...skilled artisan who raised mead-halls ( Cynewulf's Christ ). Without mentioning this...
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The Cynewulf Reader. (Shorter Notices).
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2002; 361 words
; ...New York: Routledge, 2000. xxv + 367 pp.; 18 illustrations. ISBN 0-415-93754-X. 25.00 [pounds sterling] (p/b). A corrected paperback reprint of the collection of major articles on Cynewulf first published in 1996.
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Hopkins.(Guide to the Year's Work)(Gerard Manley Hopkins and Christina Rossetti)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...criticism that examines it. In "Hopkins and Cynewulf: 'The Wreck of the Deutschland...of diction, images, and themes from Cynewulf's Old English work Christ. He particularly...Wreck," st. 3, l. 21) with Cynewulf's depiction (as he himself recalled...
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Stacy S. Klein, Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon Literature.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the attention of feminist critics is Cynewulf's Elene, whose heroine Klein shows...of queenship. The problem of dating Cynewulf and his verse is touched on, and remains...Conner's arguments for a tenth-century Cynewulf have been more rigorously questioned...
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Fantasies of our identity.(On Poetry)(Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination)(Introduction to The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...account of the rivalry between the eighth-century Mercian bards Cynewulf and Cyneheard reads like a transcription of the era's oral...wizards, and men was inspired in part by the writings of Cynewulf. The trilogy imaginatively recreates an ancient poetic tradition...
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Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Magazine article from: Arthuriana; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...spirituality'(4). Examining Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, Cynewulf's Elene, Beowulf, and lfric's biblical translations...Crossing Queens, Pleasing Hierarchies,' which reconsiders Cynewulf's depiction of Helena, mother of Constantine and legendary...
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Who is the nun from Heidenheim? A study of Hugeburc's Vita Willibaldi.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...of identity and the desire to be recognized and remembered. Cynewulf, writing Old English poetry in the ninth century, (9) scatters...Dhuoda, to her dear son William. Read.'). Both Cynewulf and Dhuoda, besides their explicit appeals, challenge their...
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Soldier Saints and Holy Warriors: Warfare and Sanctity in the Literature of Early England.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...in the alliterative "word-horde" drew on pre-Christian heroic traditions. Even Cynewulf's poetry has no single theology of war. For example, Cynewulf portrays Juliana as a spiritual warrior whose fighting spirit contrasts with the earthly...
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Cynewulf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Cynewulf The details of the life of Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf (flourished 8th or 9th century) are shrouded in mystery...Caedmon and the subsequent school of Caedmon style. Cynewulf is recognized as the second Anglo-Saxon poet to write...
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Anglo-Saxon literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...stories, the most dramatic of which is probably Genesis B. Cynewulf , a later poet, signed the poems Elene, Juliana, and The...no more is known of him. The finest poem of the school of Cynewulf is The Dream of the Rood, the first known example of the dream...
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Vision of Judgement, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Vision of Judgement, The. Oratorio by Fricker , his Op.29, to text compiled by him from 8th-cent. poem by Cynewulf. For sop. and ten. soloists, ch., and orch. Comp. for 1958 Leeds Fest., where its f.p. was cond. by John Pritchard.
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Andreas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Andreas, an Old English poem of 1,722 lines in the Vercelli Book, based on a Latin version of the Greek Apocryphal Acts of Andrew and Matthew amongst the Anthropophagi . It was previously believed to be by Cynewulf but it is now thought to have been written in the late 9th cent.
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Chronicle, The ). The most celebrated entries are those for 449 (the arrival of Hengist and Horsa), for 755 (the story of Cynewulf and Cyneheard), for 893 to 897 ( Alfred's last series of Danish wars), and for the disastrous years of Stephen's reign...
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