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*The Appreciation of Old English Metre by A' J. Bliss | *The Appreciation of Old English Metre by A' J. Bliss | ||
*King Alfred’s Last War by M. E. Griffiths | *King Alfred’s Last War by M. E. Griffiths |
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English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday | |
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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.[1]
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;
References
- ↑ Tolkien publications for 2011 by Harper Collins - Interview with David Brawn at Tolkien Library (accessed 29 April 2011)