Old English Poetry: Essays on Style

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Based on papers delivered at a symposium on Old English poetry held in Los Angeles, March 31 to April 2, 1977.

Author(s): Daniel G. Calder (ed.)
Series: Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 10
Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 1979

Language: English
Pages: VIII+174
City: Berkeley

The study of style in Old English poetry: a historical introduction / Daniel G. Calder 1
Two Old English poetic phrases insufficiently understood for literary criticism: 'þing gehegan' and 'seonoþ gehegan' / E. G. Stanley 67
Esthetics and meaning and the translation of Old English poetry / Styanely B. Greenfield 91
The editing of Old English poetic texts: questions of style / Roy F. Leslie 111
Two aspects of variations in Old English poetry / Fred C. Robinson 127
Action in 'Beowulf' and our perception of it / Peter Clemoes 147
Index 169