The ‘ubi sunt’ topos is a powerful Christian homiletic motif which poses the question “where are those who went before us?”. The motif functions in a similar way to the Horatian emphasis on ‘eheu fugaces’, stating that everything is destined to...

Perhaps unsurprisingly given the title it is now most famously known by, The Wanderer is a poem that operates as a journey on numerous levels; there is – of course – the physical journey of the solitary man as he navigates his way through an...