Research Catalog

Title

Philological essays ; studies in Old and Middle English language and literature, in honour of Herbert Dean Meritt / [Edited by] James L. Rosier.

Publication

The Hague : Mouton, 1970.

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Additional Authors

• Meritt, Herbert Dean, 1904-1984.
• Rosier, James L.

Description

203 pages : portrait; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Janua linguarum. Series maior ; 37

Uniform Title

Janua linguarum. Series maior ; 37.

Subjects

• English philology > Old English, ca. 450-1100
• English philology > Middle English, 1100-1500
• Philologie anglaise
• Meritt, Herbert Dean, 1904-1984

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Deep in the Cretan cave, by Y. Winters.--Herbert Dean Meritt: a biographical sketch, by R. W. Ackerman.--Bibliography of the writings of Herbert Dean Meritt, by F. C. Robinson and J. J. Quinn (p. [13]-15)--On the consonantal phonemes of Old English, by S. M. Kuhn.--Much and many: the historical development of a modern English distributional pattern, by A. H. Marckwardt.--Beowulf's old age, by J. C. Pope.--Destiny and the heroic warrior in Beowulf, by G. V. Smithers.--Death and transfiguration: Guthlac B, by J. L. Rosier.--Verse influences in Old English prose, by A. Campbell.--Lexicography and literary criticism: a caveat, by F. C. Robinson.--The rhetorical lore of the Boceras in Byhrtferth's Manual, by J. J. Murphy.--The authorship of the account of King Edgar's establishment of monasteries, by D. Whitelock.--Six words in the Blickling Homilies, by R. L. Collins.--Some notes on the Liber scintillarum and its Old English gloss, by R. Derolez.--A. S. Napier, 1853-1916, by N. Ker.--The Venus of Alanus de Insulis and the Venus of Chaucer, by D. B. Loomis.--"The tale of Gareth" and the unity of Le morte Darthur, by R. W. Ackerman.

LCCN

74102958

OCLC

• ocm00126263
• SCSB-5194704

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries