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The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book. It comprises 115 lines of alliterative verse . As is often the case with Anglo-Saxon verse, the composer and compiler are anonymous, and within the manuscript the poem is untitled.
Prominent ubi sunt Anglo-Saxon poems are The Wanderer, Deor, The Ruin, and The Seafarer. These poems are all a part of a collection known as the Exeter Book, the largest surviving collection of Old English literature. [4] The Wanderer most clearly exemplifies ubi sunt poetry in its use of the erotema (the rhetorical question): Hwær cwom mearg?
The final poem in the original edition was the multi-part “The Wanderer: A Rococo Study,” which had been written before the other pieces. For The Collected Earlier Poems (New Directions, 1966), it was extracted from the section containing Al Que Quiere! and instead moved to the front to stand on its own.
Aside from eight leaves added to the codex after it was written, the Exeter Book consists entirely of poetry. However, unlike the Junius manuscript, which is dedicated to biblically inspired works, the Exeter Book is noted for the unmatched diversity of genres among its contents, as well as their generally high level of poetic quality.
"Der Wanderer" (D 489) [formerly D 493] is a lied composed by Franz Schubert in October 1816 for voice and piano. A revised version was published near the end of May 1821 as opus 4, number 1. The words are taken from a German poem by Georg Philipp Schmidt (von Lübeck) . [ 1 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... was published in 1879, and a third part, The Wanderer and his Shadow ... with a short poem as an epilogue. The eponymous ...
The poem may also have been inspired by the legends of the Wandering Jew, who was forced to wander the earth until Judgement Day for a terrible crime, found in Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, M. G. Lewis' The Monk (a 1796 novel Coleridge reviewed), and the legend of the Flying Dutchman. [9] [10]
Stables (right) with his dog "Hurricane Bob" at his side, and an unknown person (left), with his caravan "The Wanderer", in the 1890s. William Gordon Stables (21 May 1840 – 10 May 1910) was a Scottish medical doctor in the Royal Navy and a prolific author of adventure fiction, primarily for boys.