The Wisdom of Poetry

Essays in Early English Literature in Honor of Morton W. Bloomfield

Edited by Larry D. Benson Edited by Siegfried Wenzel

Book cover: The Wisdom of Poetry

Paperback (Out of print)

(December 1982)

ISBN: 9780918720160

Price: $39.95

Out of stock

Hardback (Published)

(July 1982)

ISBN: 9780918720153

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $19.95

In stock

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.

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, 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
Notes

  • Edited by Larry D. Benson
  • Edited by Siegfried Wenzel