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The Wisdom of Poetry

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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.
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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.
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Price: £17.50
Pages: 322
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Imprint: Medieval Institute Publications
Series: Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures
Publication Date: 01 July 1982
ISBN: 9780918720153
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

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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