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Doctrine and Poetry

Augustine's Influence on Old English Poetry

By: Bernard F. Huppe

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Doctrine and Poetry

Augustine's Influence on Old English Poetry

By: Bernard F. Huppe

Augustinian literary doctrine, religious in its orientation, held that the purpose of literature is the promotion of charity to the end that God may be enjoyed; that the true basis for eloquence is the truth in the meaning of words, not in the words themselves. This tightly defined frame allowed none of the individualistic fancies we now associate with poetry. Dr. Huppe has illustrated the continuing influence of this theory by references to Isidore of Seville; the obscure rhetorician, Vergil of Toulouse; Bede and his continental successors, Alcuin and Rabanus; and to John Scotus Erigena. The conscious and unconscious influence of this doctrine--and of Christian thought in general--was felt not only in the interpretation of poetry but in its creation as well. Dr. Huppe's most dramatic example is the work of Caedmon, an unschooled but devout layman. Caedmon's famous Hymn, the first Christian poem in English, and its reception by learned ecclesiastics vividly demonstrate the convergence of doctrine and poetry: Old English as well as Latin. Along with Caedmon's Hymn and the Caedmonian Genesis, Dr. Huppe analyzes other Old English classics. In relating them to Latin poetic theory, he indicates a whole new direction for their study. His basic hypothesis may well be extended to relate Old English to Late Medieval verse--thus establishing the latter's rightful place in the mainstream of Christian poetry. The author has added his own translations of the Latin and Old English poetry treated in the text, which facilitates the reading of this most rewarding book.

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State University of New York Press

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1438407335

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A Reading of the Canterbury Tales

By: Bernard F. Huppe

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A Reading of the Canterbury Tales

By: Bernard F. Huppe

In the human comedy of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales the pilgrims react to one another. The tales they tell reveal their own characters and serve in turn to supply dramatic settings for other tales told in response. In the chronicle of their self-revelations and of their reactions to one another, a thematic design may be traced. Chaucer's art of high comedy has behind it a literary tradition of which it is the fulfillment. Briefly this is the thesis of Professor Bernard F. Huppé's A Reading of the Canterbury Tales. The book itself is the direct result of more than fifteen years of lecturing on the Canterbury Tales, during which time Professor Huppé's views on the dramatic structure of the tales have been modified, clarified, and sharpened through discussion with students and colleagues, and through his study of Chaucer's literary tradition. A Reading of the Canterbury Tales retains the freshness and immediacy of a lecture series. It is intended to be provocative and to stimulate active discussion.

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1438407343

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Doctrine and Poetry

Augustine's Influence on Old English Poetry

By: Bernard F. Huppé

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Augustine's Influence on Old English Poetry

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To our modern sensibilities, "doctrine" and "poetry" may seem antithetical, but the medieval Christian found nothing conflicting in them. In this provocative book, Bernard F. Huppe outlines the influence of Augustinian doctrine upon old English poetry and shows that their association was so close as to be indissoluble.

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SUNY Press

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0873950011

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9780873950015

A Reading of the Canterbury Tales

By: Bernard F. Huppe

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Doctrine and Poetry

Doctrine and Poetry

A Reading of the Canterbury Tales

A Reading of the Canterbury Tales

Doctrine and Poetry

Doctrine and Poetry

A Reading of the Canterbury Tales

A Reading of the Canterbury Tales

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