Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in Appreciation : for John C. McGalliardLewis E. Nicholson, Dolores Warwick Frese This volume of previously unpublished essays on Anglo-Saxon poetry has been created in honor of John C. McGalliard on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Iowa after a distinguished career as a scholar-teacher of medieval literatures. As a critical anthology designed to respond to all of the major and most of the minor poems in the Anglo-Saxon canon, this collection will prove valuable to every class in Anglo-Saxon, whether introductory or advanced. The twenty-five essays take up individual problems concerned with the interpretation of specific poems. In offering their solutions to these problems the contributors evince their great love of poetry and their impressive knowledge of Anglo-Saxon scholarship. The contributors, who include Robert P. Greed, Charles Donahue, Norman E. Eliason, John Gardner, Margaret Goldsmith, Stanley Greenfield, Alvin A. Lee, Burton Raffle, Fred C. Robinson, Alain Renoir, and Robert Stevick, are prominent among the world-wide community of Anglo-Saxonists, and represent the entire range of critical approaches to Old English Literature. Their lively willingness to accept specific titular assignments is a tribute to the man who inspired this project. Among them are practicing poets, novelists, and translators - a reflection of the genuine humanism and erudition of Professor McGalliard. It is the editors' hope that the ongoing usefulness of this book whose attractive critical unity springs from the self-limited nature of the Anglo-Saxon poetic corpus, will constitute an added honorific dimension. The editors are both former students of John C. McGalliard. Lewis E, Nicholson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He has published essays on Anglo-Saxon poetry and is editor of An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism. Delores Warwick Frese is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to scholarly articles she has published two novels as well as poems and short stories. |
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The Murder | 14 |
Notes on the Heroic in Beowulf | 23 |
Gnomic Indirection in Beowulf | 41 |
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