English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday

English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday
Author	Edited by Norman Davis and C.L. Wrenn
Publisher	London: George Allen & Unwin
Released	1962
Pages	340

English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday is a 1962 collection of essays, published in tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien. The volume includes the poem "A Short Ode to a Philologist", written by W.H. Auden.

In May 2011, HarperCollins reprinted the collection as a print-on-demand book.

This book includes the following essays:

• The Old English Epic Style by A. Campbell
• The Appreciation of Old English Metre by A' J. Bliss
• King Alfred’s Last War by M. E. Griffiths
• Six Questions of Old and Middle English Morphology by C. E. Bazell
• Studies in Late West Saxon Labialization and Delabialization by Pamela Gradon
• The Bodmer Fragment of Ælfic’s Homily for Septuagesima Sunday by N. R. Ker
• A Neglected Manuscript of British History by S. R. T. O. d'Ardenne
• ormulum: Words copied by Jan van Vliet from parts now lost by R. W. Burchfield
• Norse Alliterative Phrases in the Ormulum by E. S. Olszewska
• The Affiliations of the manuscripts of Ancrene Wisse by E. J. Dobson
• God and Man in Troilus and Criseyde by T. P. Dunning
• Chaucer’s Translation of the Bible by W. Meredith Thompson
• God’s Wenches and the Light that Spoke (a note on Langland’s kind of poetry) by Nevill Coghill
• The Anthropological Approach by C. S. Lewis;