But also, the fact that my first run at a Beowulf seminar, during plague lockdown, went as well as it did was entirely thanks to y'all being such a fantastic group, and I think about you all a lot, actually.

Understood as interrogating assertions of "standard" Modern English, I'd say it's a practice worthy only of "lof," that is, praise :D

(the black hole here, too, is how can you possibly evaluate the analysis that your LLM produces if you are not trained to interpret, analyze, historicize?) everything is amazing if you know nothing

Thank you so much for sharing!!

Thank you, Nicole!!

Thank YOU for sharing!!

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but continue in surprising ways. Literary Form in Early Medieval England offers a concise tour of what we do know of literary forms, both those that have received more attention and those that have been relatively overlooked, across the first six centuries of English literature."

and formal innovation. Literary Form in Early Medieval England examines both more and lesser known forms, considering the multilingual landscape of early medieval England and showing that Old English literary forms do not simply end with the rupture of the Norman Conquest

early medieval English writing offers only sparse contemporaneous self-commentary, often in brief or conventional notes along the way to other things. But Old English and Latin literature had lively and evolving practices of literary form

Here's a quick description of the book:

"The earliest English writers left little comment on their literary forms. In contrast to the grammatical treatises of late antiquity or critical studies of contemporary and modern literature,