Research Catalog

Title

Essential articles for the study of Old English poetry. Edited by Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. [and] Stanley J. Kahrl.

Author

Bessinger, Jess B., Jr., 1921-1994

Publication

Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1968.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kahrl, Stanley J.

Description

x, 570 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

The Essential articles series

Uniform Title

The Essential articles series.

Subject

• 450-1100
• English poetry > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism
• English poetry > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The lost literature of medieval England / R. W. Chambers -- Widsith and the critic / Kemp Malone -- Anglo-Saxon literature: "Attic" or "Asiastic"? Old English poetry and its Latin background / René Derolez -- Patristics and Old English literature: notes on some poems / Morton W. Bloomfield -- Dialect origins of the earlier Old English verse / Kenneth Sisam -- Old English Beot and Old Icelandic Heitstrenging / Stefán Einarsson -- Wyrd in Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry / B. J. Timmer -- Colour words in Anglo-Saxon / L. D. Lerner -- The devil in Old English poetry / Rosemary Woolf -- Diction and imagery in Anglo-Saxon poetry / Henry Cecil Wyld -- Understatement in Old English poetry / Frederick Bracher -- Analysis of stylistic devices and effects in Anglo-Saxon literature / R. F. Leslie -- Old Germanic metrics and Old English metrics / Eduard Sievers -- Old English verse and English speech rhythm / Marjorie Daunt -- The alliterative metre / C. S. Lewis -- The oral-formulaic character of Anglo-Saxon narrative poetry / Francis P. Magoun, Jr. -- The formulaic expression of the theme of "Exile" in Anglo-Saxon poetry / Stanley Greenfield -- The making of an Anglo-Saxon poem / Robert P. Creed -- Theme as ornament in Anglo-Saxon poetry / Robert E. Diamond -- The oral-formulaic analyses of Old English verse / Robert D. Stevick -- The poetry of Cædmon / C. W. Wren -- The "Dream of the Rood" as prosopopoeia / Margaret Schlauch -- The interpretation of "The Seafarer" / Dorothy Whitelock -- Old English poetic diction and the interpretation of "The Wanderer, The Seafarer" and "The Penitent's Prayer" / E. G. Stanley -- On the genre of "The Wanderer" / J. E. Cross -- Dramatic voices in "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer" / John C. Pope.

ISBN

0208001530

LCCN

^^^68020087^//r984

OCLC

• 441301
• SCSB-12555070

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library