The Wisdom of Poetry: Essays in Early English Literature in Honor of Morton W. BloomfieldLarry Dean Benson, Siegfried Wenzel Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1982 - 314 pages 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. |
Contents
Sapientia et Fortitudo in the Old English Judith | 13 |
The Drama of The Wanderer | 31 |
The Beowulf Poets Sense of History | 53 |
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