✦ LIBER ✦
Two notes on the time frame ofThe Wanderer(Lines 22 and 73–87)
✍ Scribed by John Richardson
- Book ID
- 104757607
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Volume
- 73
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-2677
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In the introduction to his edition of The Wanderer, R. F. Leslie emphasizes the long period of growth in wisdom which lies behind the wanderer's monologue, criticizing readings of the poem which do not do so:
Insufficient attention has been paid to geara iu in line 22. These emphatic adverbs make clear that all these things happened a long time ago, and underline his present ripeness in years and experience.' Bruce Mitchell has responded to Leslie in the belief that the time scale is unprovable. Mitchell