Research Catalog

Title

Old English poetry : fifteen essays / edited by Robert P. Creed.

Publication

Providence, Brown University Press, 1967.

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Details

Additional Authors

Creed, Robert Payson, 1925-2015

Description

xii, 332 pages illustrations; 22 cm

Series Statement

Brown University bicentennial publication.

Uniform Title

Brown University bicentennial publication

Subject

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

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• A Brown University bicentennial publication.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The Sutton Hoo harp replica and Old English musical verse / Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. -- Metrical uses of the harp in Beowulf / John Nist -- The self-deception of temptation : Boethian psychology in Genesis B / Alain Renoir -- The art of the singer : three Old English tellings of the offering of Isaac / Robert P. Creed -- The dream of the rood : patterns of transformation / Louis H. Leiter -- The conception of the Old English Phoenix / J.E. Cross -- Image and meaning in the elegies / Edward B. Irving, Jr. -- Aldhelm and the Leiden riddle / George K. Anderson -- Jottings on Beowulf and the aesthetic approach / Adrien Bonjour -- The pagan coloring of Beowulf / Larry D. Benson -- The convention of personification in Beowulf / Neil D. Isaacs -- Themes of death in Beowulf / Paul Beekman Taylor -- Grendel's approach to Heorot : syntax and poetry / Stanley B. Greenfield -- The eotemas in Beowulf / R.E. Kaske -- On translating Beowulf / Burton Raffel.

LCCN

67010212

OCLC

• ocm00350233
• 350233
• SCSB-119251

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library