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Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope Robert B. Burlin

Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope By Robert B. Burlin

Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope by Robert B. Burlin


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As a tribute to the superb teaching and exemplary literary criticism of this eminent Yale scholar, the majority of these essays deal with thematic, textual, and prosodic issues in Old English poetry.

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Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope by Robert B. Burlin

As a tribute to the superb teaching and exemplary literary criticism of this eminent Yale scholar, the majority of these essays deal with thematic, textual, and prosodic issues in Old English poetry, seven of them providing a valuable reassessment of some of the perennial problems of Beowulf criticism: the implications of its metaphysical and social systems as well as its rhetorical and imagistic structures; and especially the recurrent need for a careful re-examination of the text and a return to the manuscript evidence. These contributions add significantly to the debate over the meaning of the tragic element of Beowulf and to the better understanding of the character of its hero. The poetic literature is further represented by a new evaluation of the central literary problems of the Exodus, a reinterpretation of the puzzling Wulf and Eadwacer, and philological and syntactical examinations of Maldon and the Phoenix. Other interests of Professor Pope are reflected in two metrical analyses and a thorough lexicographical survey of Old English prosodic terminology, a painstaking study of the chapter-headings in the Old English Bede, and an essay which brilliantly establishes the experience of a hitherto unknown Aelfric manuscript.

About Robert B. Burlin

Robert B. Burlin is Mary E. Garrett Alumnae Professor Emeritus of English and former chairman of the Department of English at Bryn Mawr College. Edward B. Irving Jr. was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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NLS9781442652095
9781442652095
1442652098
Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope by Robert B. Burlin
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University of Toronto Press
1974-12-15
340
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