Alfred's Metres of Boethius by Bill Griffiths

Alfred's Metres of Boethius

Bill Griffiths

202 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary medium-paced

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In these poems, King Alfred re-built the Latin verses from Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae ( On the Consolation of Philosophy') into new alliterative poems, via an Old English prose intermediary. The stirring images and stories of Boethius'...

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