"Heroic" Literature and Deor

    A good introduction to the idea of "heroic literature":
  • Bowra, Cecil M. Heroic Poetry. London: 1961.
    Editions of and a few articles about Deor
  • Deor. Ed. Kemp Malone. 3rd ed. London: Methuen, 1961.
  • Pope, John C., ed. Seven Old English Poems. New York: Norton, 1966. [Excellent notes. Includes The Dream of the Rood, Maldon, Wanderer, Seafarer, Deor.]
  • Bloomfield, Morton W. "The Form of Deor." PMLA 79 (1964): 534-41. (Reprinted in Stevens and Mandel.)
  • Bolton, W.P. "Boethius, Alfred and Deor Again." Anglo-Saxon Poetry. Eds. L.R. Nicholson and D.W. Frese. South Bend: Notre Dame U P, 1975). 264-76.
  • Eliason, Norman E. "Two Old English Scop Poems." PMLA 81 (1966): 185-92.
  • ___________. "The Story of Geat and Maethhild in Deor." SP 62 (1965): 495-509.
  • Tuggle, Thomas T. "The Structure of Deor." SP 74 (1977): 229-52.

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