The New Exeter Book of Riddles

ISBN 10: 1900564319 / ISBN 13: 9781900564311

Verlag: Enitharmon Pr, 1999

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1900564319-VB

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Presents one hundred new riddles by contemporary English poets, inspired by the riddles in the medieval "Exeter Book," and describing both items that would not be out of place in the original work, and others of modern origin.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Kevin Crossley-Holland Kevin Crossley-Holland's deep interest in the early literature of north-west Europe is reflected in much of his writing. In addition to his Selected Poems and Moored Man, a cycle of North Norfolk poems with watercolours and etchings by Norman Ackroyd, he is the author of The Penguin Book of Norse Myths ,while his anthology The Anglo-Saxon World contains his well-known translations ofBeowulf and many of the shorter poems. His celebrated books for children, including the Arthur trilogy, Gatty's Tale and retelling of Beowulf illustrated by Charles Keeping, have been translated into well over twenty languages. With the poet Lawrence Sail, Crossley-Holland has edited a collection of modern metaphorical riddles,The New Exeter Book of Riddles ,and Light Unlocked, an anthology of Christmas Card poems. He is also the co-author with Ivan Cutting of The Wuffings, a play about Anglo-Saxon East Anglia, and the librettist for Nicola LeFanu of two operas based on medieval legends, The Green Children and The Wildman. Kevin Crossley-Holland is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, patron of the Society for Storytelling and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives on the North Norfolk coast.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The New Exeter Book of Riddles
Verlag: Enitharmon Pr
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: paperback
Illustrator: Drew, Simon
Zustand: As New