Christian Theology and Old English Poetry

200 Pages·1974·8.567 MB·English

by  James H. Wilson

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERA TÜRE
Volume LXXI

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
AND
OLD ENGLISH POETRY
by
JAMES H. WILSON
1974
MOUTON
THE HAGUE· PARIS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. The Background 9
II. The Elegies: An Introduction 48
III. The Wanderer 63
IV. The Seafarer 86
V. Caedmon 110
VI. Cynewulf 141
Bibliography 181
Index 187