Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, JrMedieval Institute Publications, 1993 - 437 من الصفحات 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. |
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Its Reception 17261906 29 | 29 |
Decorated in Low Relief | 47 |
An Essay with Special | 77 |
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12 من الأقسام الأخرى غير ظاهرة
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
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