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- Title
Hopkins and Cynewulf: "The Wreck of the Deutschland," "The Windhover," "The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe," and the Christ.
- Authors
Cotter, James Finn
- Abstract
The article focuses on the poetry in the mid-nineteenth century. Cynewulf's Christ is a title given in the mid-nineteenth century to a series of three poems that appear together and open The Exeter Book, a manuscript that has belonged to the Chapter Library of Exeter Cathedral at least since 1072. Although the order of Nativity, Ascension, and Second Coming follow the traditional New Testament story of Christ and would seem to support the unity of the work, stylistic, structural, and formal differences between the three poems have led modern scholars to doubt the attribution of the first and third poems to Cynewulf.
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); NINETEENTH century; EXETER Book (Book); JESUS Christ; INTELLECTUALS; SCHOLARS; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0014