Open AccessRumination and Re-Creation: Poetic Instruction in The Order of the World
Author(s) -
Ruth Wehlau
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
florilegium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2369-7180
pISSN - 0709-5201
DOI - 10.3138/flor.13.005
Subject(s) - poetry , paraphrase , literature , order (exchange) , elegy , art , philosophy , linguistics , finance , economics
The Old English poem The Order of the World contains another poem within itself, a poem that is offered to the reader with the specific purpose of providing a sample or model of good poetry. Although this sample poem is to some extent based on Psalm 18, it is neither a translation nor a paraphrase of the psalm. Rather, it is a reconstruction of the psalm in an Old English idiom.
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