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Book SynopsisEighteen essays by some of the most prominent British and North American students of heroic poetry, plus two poems and a bibliography, are gathered here to honor Jess B. Bessinger Jr., whose innovative studies of heroic poetry have instructed a generation of scholars and whose performances of Anglo-Saxon poems are legendary.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Biographical Preface by John Leyerle
Bibliography by Helen Damico
Dedicatory Poem: For J. B. 1949
Dedicatory Poem: For Jess B. Bessinger 1992 by Willaim Alfred
Offa in
The Battle of Maldon by John C. Pope
The Battle of Maldon: Its Reception 1726–1906 by Roberta Frank
Celæs and Cellod: Decorated in Low Relief by Donald K. Fry
Love and Death in the
Männerbund: An Essay with Special Reference to the
Bjarkamál and
The Battle of Maldon by Joseph Harris
The Accentuation of
Nu in
Cædmon's Hymn by Fred C. Robinson
Cædmon Revisited by Albert Bates Lord
The Context for Epic in Later Anglo-Saxon England by Robert L. Kellogg
Type D Verses as Evidence for the Rhythmic Basis of Old English Meter by Thomas Cable
Some Problematic Sense-Divisions in Old English: “glory” and “victory”; “noble,” “glorious,” and “learned” by Eric Stanley
Between the Lines: Subdominant-to-Dominant Patterning in
Beowulf by Robert Payson Creed
Judith: Sacred and Secular Heroine by Patricia A. Belanoff
Formulaic Tradition and the Latin
Waltharius by Alexandra Hennessey Olsen
The Formulaic Relationship Between
Beowulf and
Andreas by Anita R. Riedinger
Domesticating the Dayraven in
Beowulf 1801 (with Some Attention to Alison's Ston) by Marijane Osborn
The Hall in
Beowulf and in Archaeology by Rosemary Cramp
Heroic Role-Models: Beowulf and Others by Edward B. Irving, Jr.
Beowulf and the Psychology of Terror by Michael Lapidge
Beowulf's Last Words vs. Bothvar Bjarki's: How the Hero Faces His God by Constance B. HieattIndex
