Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope / / ed. by Robert Burlin, Edward Irving Jr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Andersson, Theodore M.,; Berger, Harry,; Bessinger, J.B.,; Borroff, Marie,; Burchfield, R.W.,; Burlin, Robert B.,; Clemoes, Peter,; Collins, Rowland L.,; Cross, J.E.,; Eliason, Norman E.,; Greenfield, Stanley B.,; Irving, Edward B.,; Malone, Kemp,; Mitchell, Bruce,; Payne, F. Anne,; Robinson, Fred C.,; Stanley, E.G.,; Whitelock, Dorothy,
• HerausgeberIn: Burlin, Robert,; Irving Jr., Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1974
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

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 critici...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• The discovery of darkness in northern literature
• Three aspects of Wyrd in Beowulf
• Social structure as doom: the limits of heroism in Beowulf
• Inner weather and interlace: a note on the semantic value of structure in Beowulf
• Homage to Caedmon and others: a Beowulfian praise song
• 'Gifstol' and goldhoard in Beowulf
• Elements of the marvellous in the characterization of Beowulf: a reconsideration of the textual evidence
• Some observations on the A3 lines in Beowulf
• The rhythm of Deor
• The prosodic terminology of Anglo-Saxon scholars
• Exodus retraced
• On Wulf and Eadwacer
• Mainly on philology and the interpretative criticism of Maldon
• The 'fuglas scyne' of The Phoenix, line 591
• The list of chapter-headings in the Old English Bede
• The common origin of Ælfric fragments at New Haven, Oxford, Cambridge, and Bloomington
• John Collins Pope: a bibliography