num_pages: 467
description: 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.
language: English
title: Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Essays in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr.
publisher: Medieval Institute Publications