A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs by Craig Williamson

A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs

Craig Williamson

230 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction poetry informative lighthearted medium-paced
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In "A Feast of Creatures," Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins.Like the early English riddle...

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