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Contents
“Introduction”
3
[1] “The natural analogy: difficulties, gaps, and irritations”
15
[2] “Getting around the cipher: translating the uncooperative text”
29
[3] “Metrical and stylistic analyses”
57
[4] “Grappling with the gnomic: modern and medieval concepts of image and connection”
97
[5] “The vanishing point: deixis and conjunction”
119
[6] “The third thing: context as connection in gnomic and nature poetry”
149
[7] “Intentional difficulty in early Welsh poetry”
187
[8] “Clarity and obscurity in Old English poetry”
221
“Afterword: between worlds”
251
[Appendix] “Selected texts and translations”
Laments: 1. The seafarer; 2. The sick man (leper) of Abercuawg; 3. The song of the old man; Gnomes and nature poems: 4. Maxims II; 5. Let the cock's comb be red; 6. Keen the wind; Enigmas: 7. Wulf and Eadwacer; 8. Angar kyfyndawt; with textual commentary
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