The Role of the Poet in Early Societies

The Role of the Poet in Early Societies
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 0859912795
ISBN-13 : 9780859912792
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Book Synopsis The Role of the Poet in Early Societies by : Morton Wilfred Bloomfield

Download or read book The Role of the Poet in Early Societies written by Morton Wilfred Bloomfield and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1989 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloomfield and Dunn describe the varying roles which "poets" have historically filled within society, whether ancient, medieval, or pre-modern and identify the key functions of the poet figure. He (or sometimes she) supports the ruler and is in turn rewarded for a central service to the tribe; he exercises his authority by an apparently magical understanding of the past, present, and future; and, whenever called upon to perform an official rite, he knows how to wield the appropriate traditional, esoteric utterances. In order to illustrate the ways in which this kind of poetic function can be seen to have been exercised in early Irish literature, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, early Norse and Old English the authors draw on a wide-range of texts. The study concludes with an examination of the implications of their findings for twentieth century readers exploring the utterances of poets remote from them in time or space.


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