Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period

Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr.

Edited by Helen Damico Edited by John Leyerle

Book cover: Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period

Extent: 468 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Studies in Medieval Culture

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(August 1993)

ISBN: 9781879288287

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $19.95

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Hardback (Out of print)

(August 1993)

ISBN: 9781879288270

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $52.95

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Eighteen 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.


Eighteen 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.

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 CelAes and Cellod: Decorated in Low Relief by Donald K. Fry Love and Death in the Mannerbund: An Essay with Special Reference to the Bjarkamal and The Battle of Maldon by Joseph Harris The Accentuation of Nu in CAedmon's Hymn by Fred C. Robinson CAedmon 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. Hieatt, Acknowledgments
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. Hieatt

Index
  • Edited by Helen Damico
  • Edited by John Leyerle