Sylf , seasons, structure and genre in The Seafarer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11451607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stanley B Greenfield (University of Oregon, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Pages | 199-211 |
| Publication date | 1980-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anglo-Saxon England (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-6751 • E-ISSN: 1474-0532 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0263675100001174 |
| OpenAlex | W2163680785 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
In ‘Second Thoughts on the Interpretation of The Seafarer’ , John C. Pope gracefully retracted his earlier suggestion that The Seafarer and The Wanderer contain ‘dramatic voices’ and, in the process of retraction, generously acknowledged my own challenge to his two-speaker theory. In this later essay Professor Pope makes a number of illuminating comments about problems in The Seafarer: I feel especially enlightened by his evidence and argument that the phrase gifre ond grædig (62a) is apt for the bird-soul (the hyge-anfloga) of the speaker contemplating what is spiritually good, conveying ‘precisely the overwhelming desire, comparable to the fierce greediness of a bird of prey but purified by its object, that the seafarer feels for what he is about to name as “Dryhtnes dreamas”, “the joys of the Lord”’
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Object (grammar · Phrase · Soul · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 1997 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |