Reading Old English Wisdom
A Book by Robert DiNapoli
A selection of Old English poems identified as wisdom texts
Reading Old English Wisdom
The Fetters in the Frost
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“But where shall wisdom be found?” (Job 28:12)
Composed by monastic authors in Anglo-Saxon England from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, the poems translated and discussed in this book reflect the human imagination’s dance with the shifting contours of life within the bounds of space and time.
Harsh facts, rare joys, and the overarching mystery of mortality play among the fixed reference-points of orthodox Christian beliefs. These are ghosted by pre-Christian sensibilities embedded in the linguistic texture of Old English verse itself, whose echoes my verse translations and commentaries seek to mediate.
The Dark Glass
Reading Old English Riddles
Robert translates and analyses Old English riddles highlighting the poetic depth of mundane and abstract subjects and the complex relationship between perception and understanding.
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Poetry exploring the intersections of spirit and matter that constitute both the world at large and the human presence it sustains
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The complete Old English text of Beowulf, the most celebrated poem of the Anglo-Saxon era, in short sections followed by verse translations and extensive commentaries.
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The poems of Engelboc scout the frontiers between language, history, memory and the evolution of spiritual sensibilities across long reaches of time
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