The Old English elegies : new essays in criticism and research

This collection of new and (with one exception) previously unpublished essays is the first book-length compilation of scholarship and criticism devoted exclusively to these poems in many years. The essays re-examine many of the philological and thematic problems of the elegies, and they offer provocative solutions to some of the controversial questions of the genre. 01-TOC & Intro 02-Translating Old English Elegies 03-Elegy in Old English and Old Norse--A Problem in Literary History 04-Odin's Powers and the Old English 05-The Wife's Lament as Death-Song 06-On the Identity of the Wanderer 07-The Meaning and Structure 08-Time, Memory, and Elegy 09-On Resignation 10-The Old English Ruin--Contrastive Structure and Affective Impact 11-The Text and Context of Wulf and Eadwacer 12-Wulf and Eadwacer-Hints for Reading from Beowulf and Anthropology 13-Deor, Wulf and Eadwacer and The Soul's Address 14-Elegy Scholarship 1973-82