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Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in Appreciation for John C. McGalliard
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Secular Heroic Poetry: Beowulf
1. Norman E. Eliason, "Healfdene's Daughter"
2. John Gardner, "Guilt and the World's Complexity: The Murder of Ongentheow and the Slaying of the Dragon"
3. Charles Donahue, "Potlatch and Charity: Notes on the Heroic in Beowulf"
4. Robert B. Burlin, "Gnomic Indirection in Beowulf"
5. Lewis E. Nicholson, "Hunlafing and the Point of the Sword"
Religious Heroic Poetry: The Lives of Holy Men and Women
6. Daniel G. Calder, "Guthlac A and Guthlac B: Some Discriminations"
7. David Hamilton, "Andreas and Beowulf: Placing the Hero"
8. Robert D. Stevick, "Arithmetical Designs of the Old English Andreas"
9. James Doubleday, "The Speech of Stephen and the Tone of Elene"
10. Burton Raffel, "Judith: Hypermetricity and Rhetoric"
11. David Chamberlain, "Judith: A Fragmentary and Political Poem"
The Lyric Tradition: Secular and Religious
12. Alvin A. Lee, "Toward a Critique of The Dream of the Rood"
13. Rosemary Woolf, "The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and the Genre of Planctus"
14. W.F. Klein, "Purpose and the 'Poetics' of The Wanderer and The Seafarer"
15. Alain Renoir, "A Reading Context for The Wife's Lament"
16. Margaret E. Goldsmith, "The Enigma of The Husband's Message"
17. James L. Boren, "The Design of the Old English Deor"
Biblical Narrative: The Old Testament
18. Thomas D. Hill, "The Fall of Angels and Man in the Old English Genesis B"
19. Joseph B. Trahern, Jr., "More Scriptural Echoes in the Old English Exodus"
The Runic Tradition: Cynewulf's Signed Poems
20. Robert E. Diamond, "The Diction of the Old English Christ
21. Dolores Warwick Frese, "The Art of Cynewulf's Runic Signatures"
Wisdom Literature: Maxim, Riddle, and Gnome
22. Stanley B. Greenfield and Richard Evert, "Maxims II: Gnome and Poem"
23. Fred C. Robinson, "Artful Ambiguities in the Old English 'Book-Moth' Riddle"
24. Neil D. Isaacs, "Up a Tree: To See The Fates of Men"
25. Robert P. Creed, "Widsith's Journey Through Germanic Tradition"
Secular Heroic Poetry: Beowulf
1. Norman E. Eliason, "Healfdene's Daughter"
2. John Gardner, "Guilt and the World's Complexity: The Murder of Ongentheow and the Slaying of the Dragon"
3. Charles Donahue, "Potlatch and Charity: Notes on the Heroic in Beowulf"
4. Robert B. Burlin, "Gnomic Indirection in Beowulf"
5. Lewis E. Nicholson, "Hunlafing and the Point of the Sword"
Religious Heroic Poetry: The Lives of Holy Men and Women
6. Daniel G. Calder, "Guthlac A and Guthlac B: Some Discriminations"
7. David Hamilton, "Andreas and Beowulf: Placing the Hero"
8. Robert D. Stevick, "Arithmetical Designs of the Old English Andreas"
9. James Doubleday, "The Speech of Stephen and the Tone of Elene"
10. Burton Raffel, "Judith: Hypermetricity and Rhetoric"
11. David Chamberlain, "Judith: A Fragmentary and Political Poem"
The Lyric Tradition: Secular and Religious
12. Alvin A. Lee, "Toward a Critique of The Dream of the Rood"
13. Rosemary Woolf, "The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and the Genre of Planctus"
14. W.F. Klein, "Purpose and the 'Poetics' of The Wanderer and The Seafarer"
15. Alain Renoir, "A Reading Context for The Wife's Lament"
16. Margaret E. Goldsmith, "The Enigma of The Husband's Message"
17. James L. Boren, "The Design of the Old English Deor"
Biblical Narrative: The Old Testament
18. Thomas D. Hill, "The Fall of Angels and Man in the Old English Genesis B"
19. Joseph B. Trahern, Jr., "More Scriptural Echoes in the Old English Exodus"
The Runic Tradition: Cynewulf's Signed Poems
20. Robert E. Diamond, "The Diction of the Old English Christ
21. Dolores Warwick Frese, "The Art of Cynewulf's Runic Signatures"
Wisdom Literature: Maxim, Riddle, and Gnome
22. Stanley B. Greenfield and Richard Evert, "Maxims II: Gnome and Poem"
23. Fred C. Robinson, "Artful Ambiguities in the Old English 'Book-Moth' Riddle"
24. Neil D. Isaacs, "Up a Tree: To See The Fates of Men"
25. Robert P. Creed, "Widsith's Journey Through Germanic Tradition"
387 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1975
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January 18, 2010
Apparently started life as a festschrift in honor of John C. McGalliard.
"The twenty-five essays take up individual problems concerned with the interpretation of specific poems."
"The twenty-five essays take up individual problems concerned with the interpretation of specific poems."
January 19, 2011
I re-read this book after many years (I think I picked it up in 2004). Meh. I ended up giving it away to an English teacher at my school.
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