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By Andy Orchard

This can be the 1st book-length learn of the poetic sort of Aldhelm of Malmesbury, "the first English guy of letters." Aldhelm is without doubt one of the earliest Anglo-Saxons whose writings live on, and the 1st to aim to compose Latin metrical verse. Andy Orchard lines the resources and types for his idiosyncratic variety and the character and quantity of his impact on later Anglo-Latin verse. The e-book won't in simple terms curiosity Anglo-Saxonists, yet extra largely these attracted to the broader fields of Classics, medieval Latin, oral culture and poetics.

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1 - 1 5 ; for P r u d e n t i u s , see Aurelii Prudentii Clementis Carmina, ed. J . B e r g m a n , CSEL 6 1 (Vienna, 1926), esp. 2 4 4 - 6 . For the use of the iambic d i m e t e r by P r u d e n t i u s , see J . L. Moreno, La versification de Prudencio (Granada, 1978), pp. 21-38. 35 Cf. Lapidge, ' A D e b a t e P o e m o n Divorce', p . 1 2 . Lapidge's suggestion (Poetic Works, p. 175), that 'Aldhelm was apparently the first poet to abandon completely the stanzaic structure of the Late Latin and Hiberno-Latin hymns, and to use octosyllables for the purposes of extended narrative', ignores the efforts of Prudentius in the poem noted above, an author (and a poem) which Aldhelm seems to have known (see below, pp.

Other quite different models were available from the earliest period. There are a few short Anglo-Latin octosyllabic poems, all perhaps to be associated with the school of Theodore at Canterbury, which differ radically from the rest 32 See N o r b e r g , Introduction, p p . 8 7 - 1 3 5 ; Klopsch, Einfiihrung, p p . 5 - 2 7 . , pp. 106-11. 33 34 See particularly Crusius, Romische Metrik, p p . 8 4 , 9 9 - 1 0 0 and 1 4 9 - 5 0 ; Klopsch, Einfiihrung, p p . 7—15, 3 9 and 93—6. O n A m b r o s e , see W a l p o l e , Early Latin Hymns, p p .

5 1 - 6 2 ; see too Meyer's 'Lateinische R y t h m i k u n d byzantinische Strophik', in his Gesammelte Abhan- dlungen III, 9 8 - 1 1 8 , at p p . 1 0 6 - 1 0 . For the most recent suggestion, that the verse-form is a Latin version of Greek anacreontics, see Bischoff and Lapidge, Biblical Commentaries (forthcoming). 40 These octosyllables, largely, b u t not exclusively, featuring bisyllabic r h y m e , are p t d by B l u m e , AH LI, 2 9 9 - 3 0 2 (nos. 2 2 9 , 2 3 0 and 231); cf. lCLy nos. 1 4 6 4 0 , 2 2 8 3 and 6 1 8 9 respectively.

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