The wisdom of poetry : essays in early English literature in honor of Morton W. Bloomfield
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The wisdom of poetry : essays in early English literature in honor of Morton W. Bloomfield
Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1982
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"The publications of Morton W. Bloomfield, 1939-1981 [compiled by] George Hardin Brown"--P. [241]-258
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
A collection of wise and witty essays by some of our wisest and wittiest scholars in honor of one of our field's wisest wits.
Table of Contents
Preface Understanding an Old English Wisdom Verse: Maxims II, Lines 10ff by Fred C. Robinson
Sapientia et Fortitudo in the Old English Judith by Robert E. Kaske
The Drama of The Wanderer by William Alfred
Of Words and Deeds: The Coastguard's Maxim Once More by Stanley B. Greenfield
The Beowulf Poet's Sense of History by Roberta Frank Langland and Some Scriptural Quotations by E. Talbot Donaldson
The Perplexities of William Langland by George Kane
Narration and the Invention of Experience: Episodic Form in Piers Plowman by Anne Middleton
The Occasion of The Parliament of Fowls by Larry D. Benson
Venus in the north-north-west? Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls, 117 by Alan J. Lazarus
The Philosophies in Chaucer's Troilus by Donald R. Howard
Miracles of the Virgin, Medieval Anti-Semitism, and the Prioress's Tale by Robert Worth Frank Jr.
Chaucer's Lists by Stephen A. Barney The Wisdom of the Fool by Siegfried Wenzel
The Publications of Morton W. Bloomfield: 1939-1981 by George Hardin Brown
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