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title	:	The Role of the Poet in Early Societies
author	:	Bloomfield, Morton W.; Dunn, Charles W.
publisher	:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
isbn10 | asin	:	0859913473
print isbn13	:	9780859913478
ebook isbn13	:	9780585177588
language	:	English
subject	Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism, Poets in literature, Literature and society.
publication date	:	1989
lcc	:	PN688.B5 1989eb
ddc	:	809.1/02
subject	:	Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism, Poets in literature, Literature and society.

Page iii The Role of the Poet in Early Societies Morton W. Bloomfield and Charles W. Dunn D. S. BREWER

Page iv Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook. M. W. Bloomfield and Charles W. Dunn 1989 AllRightsReserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 1989 by D. S. Brewer, Cambridge Reprinted in hardback and paperback 1992 D. S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604, USA ISBN 0 85991 279 5 hardback ISBN 0 85991 347 3 paperback British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Bloomfield, Morton W. (Morton Wilfred) 1913 The role of the poet in early societies 1. Society. Role of poets, 11001500 I. Title II. Dunn, Charles W. (Charles William), 1915 305.3'381 ISBN 0-85991-279-5 ISBN 0-85991-347-3 pbk Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 89-30069 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984 Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Page v Dedicated to our seminar students who joined us in search of the wisdom of poets. M.W.B. C.W.D. Fochen a, ingen sos, siur chlle, ingen menman, miadach, mrdae! Hail poetry, Daughter of wisdom, Sister of reason, Daughter of prudence, Noble, revered! Old Irish Ode to Poetry

Page vii Contents List of Illustrations viii Preface ix Chapter 1. The Poetic Function 1 Chapter 2. The Primal Situation: Poetry and Patronage 17 Chapter 3. Early Irish Literature 30 Chapter 4. Scottish Gaelic Culture 57 Chapter 5. Other Early Western European Cultures: Welsh 79 Chapter 6. Other Early Western European Cultures: Norse and Old English 91 Chapter 7. The Notion of Wisdom 107 Chapter 8. Wisdom Genres and Types of Literature 121 Chapter 9. Primal Poetry and the Modern Audience 151

Page viii Illustrations 1. (p. 164) A Gaelic bard authenticates the claims of Alexander III as King of Scotland in 1249. (Scotichronicon, XVth century, paper Ms. 171, 11 1/2" 8", half-page drawing, fol.205, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, by kind permission of the Master and Fellows.) [For description, see Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland, ed. Sir William Gibson-Craig, II (Southampton, 1870), intro. Cosmo Innes, item 85, pp. xviii, 68; and M. R. James, Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in Christ's College Cambridge (Cambridge, 1905), I, 390395 (item 171). For translation of the relevant passage, see Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed. W. F. Skene (Edinburgh, 1872), II, 289290.] 2. (p. 165) The Bard, a Romantic view of the solitary poet painted by a Welsh artist, Thomas Jones (17421803) (canvas 45.5" 66"), by kind permission of the Director and Curators of the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

Page ix Preface It is with much regret that I must undertake alone to write the preface to a book which sprang from a warm-hearted academic collaboration between two friends. My fellow author, Morton Bloomfield, died on April 14, 1987, shortly before our book had reached the publisher. Here I must trust that I am speaking on behalf of both of us. As colleagues in medieval studies at Harvard, Morton and I decided some years ago to join forces in presenting a series of seminars devoted to some specific problems connected with the interpretation of early poetry. We were using the word 'poetry' in the broadest possible sense, and we were not immediately concerned with the philological problems that once faced medievalists and are now being solved by the advancing skills of linguists and lexicographers. Rather, we were concerned with questions relating to the original

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