Abstract
ABSTRACTThis essay draws on codicological, metrical, and stylistic evidence to argue that three sequences of poetic texts in the Old English Exeter Book were understood by the compiler and early readers as linked poetic sequences rather than individual poems. The sequences are the Christ poems and Guthlac; the Old English Physiologus (the Panther, Whale, and Partridge); and the Riddles (including Wulf and Eadwacer, the Wife’s Lament, the Husband’s Message, and the Ruin). The essay concludes by indicating how early medieval English ideas about poetry could be plugged back into the intellectual history of poetics that skips from Aristotle to George Puttenham.
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