Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period
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- ISBN 9781879288287
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 1993
- Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Helen Damico is a professor emerita of English and founder of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico. She has published widely on Old and Middle English literature, particularly Beowulf.
John Leyerle was a professor of English at the University of Toronto, a driving force in creating the Centre for Medieval Studies there, and also worked hard to help establish CARA.
