Philological essays
Subtitle: studies in Old and Middle English language and literature, in honour of Herbert Dean Meritt.
By: [Edited by] James L. Rosier.
Contributors: Meritt, Herbert Dean, 1904-; Rosier, James L., ed.
Series: Janua linguarum.; 37
Publisher: Mouton
Published: 1970
Place of publication: The Hague
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Meritt, Herbert Dean, 1904-; English philology -- Old English, ca. 450-1100; English philology -- Middle English, 1100-1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Deep in the Cretan cave, by Y. Winters.; title: Herbert Dean Meritt: a biographical sketch, by R. W. Ackerman.; title: Bibliography of the writings of Herbert Dean Meritt, by F. C. Robinson and J. J. Quinn (p. [13]-15); title: On the consonantal phonemes of Old English, by S. M. Kuhn.; title: Much and many: the historical development of a modern English distributional pattern, by A. H. Marckwardt.; title: Beowulf's old age, by J. C. Pope.; title: Destiny and the heroic warrior in Beowulf, by G. V. Smithers.; title: Death and transfiguration: Guthlac B, by J. L. Rosier.; title: Verse influences in Old English prose, by A. Campbell.; title: Lexicography and literary criticism: a caveat, by F. C. Robinson.; title: The rhetorical lore of the Boceras in Byhrtferth's Manual, by J. J. Murphy.; title: The authorship of the account of King Edgar's establishment of monasteries, by D. Whitelock.; title: Six words in the Blickling Homilies, by R. L. Collins.; title: Some notes on the Liber scintillarum and its Old English gloss, by R. Derolez.; title: A. S. Napier, 1853-1916, by N. Ker.; title: The Venus of Alanus de Insulis and the Venus of Chaucer, by D. B. Loomis.; title: "The tale of Gareth" and the unity of Le morte Darthur, by R. W. Ackerman.