Prosody and Poetics in the Early Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of C. B. Hieatt

240 Pages·2018·19.806 MB·English

by  M. Jane Toswell (ed.)

Prosody and Poetics
in the Early Middle Ages
Essays in Honour of
C.B. Hieatt
C.B. Hieatt
Prosody and Poetics
in the Early Middle Ages
Essays in Honour of
C.B. Hieatt
Edited by M.J. Toswell
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
© University of Toronto Press Incorporated 1995
Toronto Buffalo London
Printed in Canada
Reprinted in 2018
ISBN 0-8020-0653-1
ISBN 978-1-4875-8525-9 (paper)
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Printed on acid-free paper
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Prosody and poetics in the early Middle Ages :
essays in honour of C.B. Hieatt
Based on a conference held at the University of
Western Ontario, Mar. 4-6, 1993.
Includes bibliography.
ISBN 0-8020-0653-1
I. English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100 -
History and criticism - Congresses. 2. English
poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and
criticism - Congresses. 3. English language -
Versification - Congresses. 4. Epic poetry, English
(Old) - History and criticism - Congresses.
I. Toswell, M. J. II. Hieatt, Constance 8., 1928-
PR205.P76 1995 829'.I C94-932538-4
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council.
Contents
Foreword vii
JAMES M. GOOD, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Western Ontario
Preface ix
Introduction 3
M.J. TOSWELL, University of Western Ontario
Grammar, Spelling, and the Rhythm of the Alliterative Long Line I 3
THOMAS .CABLE, University of Texas at Austin
The Ba:rte of Ma/don and Beowulfian Prosody 23
ROBERT PAYSON CREED, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst
The Poet's Self-Interruption in Andreas 42
JOHN MILES FOLEY, University of Missouri
Alliterative Licence and the Rhetorical Use of Proper Names in The Battle
of Ma/don 60
M.S. GRIFFITH, New College, Oxford
Simplifying Resolution in Beowulf 80
JAMES KEDDIE, University of Western Ontario
Computer Assistance in the Analysis of Old English Metre: Methods and
Results - A Provisional Report I 02
O.D. MACRAE-GIBSON AND J.R. LISHMAN, University of
Aberdeen
v1 Contents
The Case against a 'General Old English Poetic Dialect' 117
DA YID MEGGINSON, University of Ottawa
The Intonational Basis of La3amon's Verse 133
DOUGLAS MOFFAT, Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor
Constraints on Resolution in Beowulf 147
GEOFFREY RUSSOM, Brown University
Translation and Transformation in Andreas 164
BRIAN SHAW, University of Western Ontario
Speech and the Unspoken in Ham/Jismhl 180
T.A. SHIPPEY, Saint Louis University
Heroic Aspects of the Exeter Book Riddles 197
ERIC GERALD STANLEY, Pembroke College, Oxford
Bibliography of C.B. Hieatt 219
List of Contributors 225
Foreword
JAMES M. GOOD
Having, as a student, left the University of Western Ontario for New York's
Columbia University in 1965, I returned as faculty four years later to find
Western changed. A major alteration was the presence of the Hieatts, Kent
and Connie, who in the interim had departed that American metropolis to seek
sanctuary in southwestern Ontario. It was a time of protest in the United
States, with graduate students facing the military draft and occupying univer-
sity presidents' offices to register dissatisfaction.
Yet I doubt if Constance Hieatt was - or would be - fleeing anything.
Canadian universities, with strong academic traditions and good students
coming out of rigorous secondary school programs, were healthy and grow-
ing. Westem's English Department, under the new leadership of the late
Professor Paul Fleck, was vital and energetic, a mixture of the young idealism
of recent junior appointments and the more experienced presence of those
well schooled in the cultures of the University of Toronto and beyond. With
her Yale thesis defended in 1957 and almost a decade behind her of teaching
at the City University of New York and St John's University, Professor Hieatt
recognized opportunity. Western had the foresight to realize the contributions
she and her husband Kent could make.
The scholarly achievement is a matter of record, well documented in bib-
liographies and citations. Less easily captured, perhaps, is that cosmopolitan
presence that offered leadership and guidance. Connie is a gracious and ac-
complished hostess who did more than her share of bringing this academic
community together in relaxed and convivial settings. She showed a real and
sympathetic interest in the work of younger colleagues. She also held a no-
nonsense view of the commitment necessary to scholarly pursuits, and ex-
pected of others the high standards she set for herself.
viii Foreword
This volume is the product of much work by many people who know and
understand Professor Constance Hieatt's place in her profession. It is a tribute
to what could be termed 'the Hieatt Years' at the University of Western
Ontario, an era already viewed with nostalgia and one not likely soon to
return.
Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Western Ontario