Denis Ferhatović, Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry: Spolia in Old English Verse. (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. Pp. viii, 185. $120. ISBN: 978-1-5261-3165-2.

Jonathan Wilcox

doi:10.1086/714649

Denis Ferhatović, Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry: Spolia in Old English Verse. (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. Pp. viii, 185. $120. ISBN: 978-1-5261-3165-2.

Speculum ◽

10.1086/714649 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 96 (3) ◽

pp. 816-817

Author(s):

Jonathan Wilcox

Keyword(s):

Old English ◽

Medieval Literature ◽

English Verse

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Old English Poetry into Modern English Verse

Translation and Literature ◽

10.3366/tal.1994.3.3.69 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 69-75

Author(s):

M. J. Alexander

Keyword(s):

Old English ◽

English Poetry ◽

Old English Poetry ◽

English Verse

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The Exeter Book Riddles: authorship and transmission

Anglo-Saxon England ◽

10.1017/s026367510008008x ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 44 ◽

pp. 131-162

Author(s):

Peter Orton

Keyword(s):

Old English ◽

Exeter Book ◽

English Verse

AbstractThe Exeter Book Riddles are anonymous, and the generally formulaic character of all Old English verse discourages attempts to establish unity or diversity of authorship for them; but correlations between the sequence of Riddles in the manuscript and the recurrence from poem to poem of aspects of form, content (including solutions), presentation and style sometimes suggest common authorship for particular runs of texts, or reveal shaping episodes in the collection's transmission. Investigation along these lines throws up clear differences between the two main blocks of Riddles (1–59 and 61–95), and evidence emerges that the composition of many (at least) of Riddles 61–95 was influenced by a reading of Riddles 1–59.

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