Loyal Letters. Studies on Mediaeval Alliterative Poetry & Prose.

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: xij. 300pp., 16 contributions, footnotes & references, list contributors. CONTENTS. 1. Michael Benskin: The Literary Structure of Aelfric's Life of King Edmund. 2. Richard North: Metre and Meaning in Wulf and Eadwacer: Signý Reconsidered. 3. Karin E. Olsen: The Dual Function of the Repetitions in Exodus 447-515. 4. Peter J. Lucas: A Daniel come to Judgement? Belshazzar's Feast in Old and Middle English. 5. Tette Hofstra: A Note on the " Darkness of the Night" Motif in Alliterative Petry, and the Search for the Poet of the Old Saxon " Heliand ". 6. Alan Swanson: Keeping one's Head: the Rhetorical Strategy of the " Head-Ransom's " Episode in " Egils saga" . 7. Erik Kooper: Lazamon and the Development of Early Middle English Alliterative Poetry. 8. Hoyt N. Duggan: The Role and Distribution of Adverbs in Middle English Alliterative Verse. 9. Thorlac Turville-Petre: Wynnere and Wastoure: When and Where? 10. Michael W. Twomey: Cleanness 1057-64 and the " Roman de la Rose". 11. F.N.M. Diekstra: Symbolic Narrative in " Patience ". 12. Juliette Dor: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Time and Times. 13. L.A.J.R. Houwen: " Breme Beres" and " Hende Hertes " : Appearance and Reality in William of Palerne. 14. David F. Johnson: In somnium, in visionem: The Figurative Significance of Sleep in Piers Plowman. 15. A.A. MacDonald: Alliterative Poetry and Its Context: The Case of William Dunbar. 16. David Parkinson: Alexander Montgomerie, James VI and 'Tumbling Verse' . Fine copy. …