Elegies: Ruin, Wanderer, Seafarer

    Editions of the OE Texts
  • The O.E. Texts online
  • Printed Editions (with introductions, notes, and bibliography)
    • The Wanderer. Ed. R.F. Leslie. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1966.
    • The Wanderer. Ed. T.P. Dunning and A.J. Bliss. London: Methuen, 1969.
    • The Seafarer. Ed. I.L. Gordon, with a bibliography by Mary Clayton. Exeter: U of Exeter P, 1996.
    • Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader. 15th ed. rev. by Dorothy Whitelock. Oxford: Clarendon, 1979.
    • Seven Old English Poems. Ed. John C. Pope. New York: Norton, 1981.
    Some Basic and Influential Studies
  • Greenfield, Stanley B. "The Old English Elegies." Continuations and Beginnings.
  • Mitchell, Bruce. "Linguistic Facts and the interpretation of Old English Poetry." Anglo-Saxon England 4 (1975): 11-28.
  • Clemoes, Peter. "Mens absentia cogitans in The Seafarer and The Wanderer." Medieval Literature and Civilization . . . Ed. D.A. Pearsall and R.A. Waldron. London: , 1969). 62-77.
  • Cross, J.E. "Aspects of Microcosm and Macrocosm in Old English Literature." Studies in Honor of Arthur G. Brodeur. Ed. S.B. Greenfield (Portland: U of Oregon P, 1963). 11-15.
  • Cross, J.E. "Ubi Sunt Passages in Old English--Sources and Relationships." Vetenskaps-Societetens i Lund, Arsbok 1956. 23-44.
  • Cross, J.E. "On the Genre of 'The Wanderer'." Neophilologus 45 (1961): 63-75.
  • Gordon, I.L. "Traditional Themes in 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer'." Review of English Studies, ns 5 919540: 1-13.
  • Rosier, James L. "The Literal-Figural Identity of The Wanderer." PMLA 70 (1964): 366-9.
  • Smithers, G.V. "The Meaning of 'The Seafarer' and 'The Wanderer'." M’ 26 (1957): 137-53 and 28 (1959): 1-22.
  • Stanley, E. G. "Old English Poetic Diction and the Interpretation of The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Penitent's Prayer." Anglia 73 (1955): 413-66. (Reprinted in Bessinger and Kahrl.)
  • Whitelock, Dorothy. "The Interpretation of 'The Seafarer'." The Early Cultures of Northern Europe. Ed. Cyril Fox and Bruce Dickins. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1950). 261-72.
    A Few Recent Articles
  • Chase, Dennis. "Existential Attitudes in the Old English Wanderer." The Language Quarterly. 26 (1987): 17-19.
  • Galloway, Andrew. "Dream-Theory in The Dream of the Rood and The Wanderer." Review of English Studies. 45 (1994): 475-85.
  • Green, Martin. "Man, Time and Apocalypse in The Wanderer, The Seafarer and Beowulf." Old English Shorter Poems: Basic Readings. Ed. Katherine O'Brien. New York: Garland, 1994. 281-302.
  • Harbus, Antonina. "Deceptive Dreams in The Wanderer." Studies in Philology. 93 (1996): 164-79.
  • McPherson, Clair. "The Sea as Desert: Early English Spirituality and The Seafarer." American Benedictine Review. 38 (1987): 115-126.
  • Richman, Gerald. "Speaker and Speech Boundaries in The Wanderer." Old English Shorter Poems: Basic Readings. Ed. Katherine O'Brien. New York: Garland, 1994. 303-18.
  • Shippey, T. A. "The Wanderer and The Seafarer as Wisdom Poetry." Companion to Old Engish Poetry. Ed. Henk Aertsen and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. Amsterdam: Vrije UP, 1994. 145-58.

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