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As a tribute to the superb teaching and exemplary literary criticism of this eminent Yale scholar, the majority of these essays deal with thematic, textual, and prosodic issues in Old English poetry, seven of them providing a valuable reassessment of some of the perennial problems of Beowulf criticism: the implications of its metaphysical and social systems as well as its rhetorical and imagistic structures; and especially the recurrent need for a careful re-examination of the text and a return to the manuscript evidence. These contributions add significantly to the debate over the meaning of the tragic element of Beowulf and to the better understanding of the character of its hero. The poetic literature is further represented by a new evaluation of the central literary problems of the Exodus, a reinterpretation of the puzzling Wulf and Eadwacer, and philological and syntactical examinations of Maldon and the Phoenix. Other interests of Professor Pope are reflected in two metrical analyses and a thorough lexicographical survey of Old English prosodic terminology, a painstaking study of the chapter-headings in the Old English Bede, and an essay which brilliantly establishes the experience of a hitherto unknown AElfric manuscript.

Anglo-Saxon poetry. --- Poésie anglo-saxonne. --- Anglo-Saxon poetry --- English poetry, Old --- Old English poetry --- Pope, John Collins, --- Pope, John C. --- English literature --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature. --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- History and criticism.

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In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightingale, plow, ox, phallic onion, and storm-wind. In lean and taut language he offers us mead disguised as a mighty wrestler, the sword as a celibate thane, the silver wine-cup as a seductress, the horn transformed from head-warrior to ink-belly or battle-singer. In his notes and commentary he gives us possible and probable solutions, sources, and analogues, a shrewd sense of literary play, and traces the literary and cultural contexts in which each riddle may be viewed. In his introduction, Williamson traces for us the history of riddles and riddle scholarship.

English poetry --- Riddles, English (Old) --- Anglo-Saxon riddles --- English riddles, Old --- Old English riddles --- Riddles, Anglo-Saxon --- Riddles, Old English --- Anglo-Saxon poetry --- English poetry, Old --- Old English poetry

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English poetry --- -English poetry --- -English literature --- Modernized versions --- -Modernized versions --- Lyrik. --- Old English. --- 450 - 1100. --- Altenglisch. --- 450-1100. --- Anglo-Saxon poetry --- English poetry, Old --- Old English poetry --- English poetry. --- Poésie anglaise --- English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Modernized versions --- English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100

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Didactic poetry, English (Old). --- English poetry --- Modernized versions. --- Didactic poetry, English (Old) --- -820 "06/10" --- Anglo-Saxon didactic poetry --- Didactic poetry, Anglo-Saxon --- English didactic poetry, Old --- Old English didactic poetry --- 820 "06/10" --- Anglo-Saxon poetry --- English poetry, Old --- Old English poetry --- 820 "06/10" Engelse literatuur--?"06/10" --- Engelse literatuur--?"06/10" --- Modernized versions --- English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Modernized versions --- English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100

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The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as Menologium) summarises, in the characteristic heroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the majorcourse of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year. It sets out, in a methodical structure based on the basic temporal framework of the solar/natural year, the locations of the major feasts widely observed inlate Anglo-Saxon England. Such a work could have been a practical timepiece for reading the dates of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, for which it serves as a kind of prologue in the manuscript. The clearlydomestic perspective of the poem, which fits in the manuscript context, is also noteworthy, while the poem also reveals various interesting characteristics in its grammar, vocabulary and prosody. This is the first full modern edition of the poem, and is accompanied by a facing translation. The introduction provides an extensive discussion of matter, content, style, and context, while the commentary offers further information. The volume also includes the texts and translations of a number of analogous works. Kazutomo Karasawa is Professor of English philology at Komazawa University, Tokyo.

Christian martyrs --- Martyrologium (Anglo-Saxon) --- Martyrs --- Martyrdom --- Christianity --- Martyrologium Saxonice --- Martyrology, Old English --- Old English Martyrology --- Altenglische Martyrologium --- Menologium (Anglo-Saxon) --- Old English metrical calendar --- Calendrier anglo-saxon --- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. --- Anglo-Saxon England. --- Anglo-Saxon liturgy. --- Anglo-Saxon poetry. --- Christian festivals. --- Christian worship. --- Domestic perspective. --- English philology. --- Grammar. --- Kazutomo Karasawa. --- Liturgical year. --- Menologium. --- Old English Metrical Calendar. --- Prosody. --- Solar/natural year. --- Vocabulary. --- cultural history. --- liturgical practices. --- liturgical traditions. --- liturgical year. --- manuscript studies. --- medieval Christianity. --- medieval liturgy. --- religious texts.