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The Wife’s Lament is an Old English short-form poem included in the tenth-century Exeter Book. It has been retroactively grouped with the Exeter Book Elegies for its central themes of loss and lamentation. Narrated by a woman, many critics read this poem as one of female agency through voicing.

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Wife’s Lament

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    2026年

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  • Noelle Trejo

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The Wife’s Lament is an Old English short-form poem included in the tenth-century Exeter Book. It has been retroactively grouped with the Exeter Book Elegies for its central themes of loss and lamentation. Narrated by a woman, many critics read this poem as one of female agency through voicing.