Book Details
Format
eBook
Pages
613
Language
English
Published
Feb 16, 2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-10
1280527153
ISBN-13
9781280527159
Description
Watkins demonstrates the continuity of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. Using the comparative method, he shows how traditional poetry formulae of considerable complexity can be reconstructed as far back as the original common languages, thus revealing the antiquity and tenacity of the poetic tradition.
Genres
Poetry
Art & Photography