Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T00:52:46.439Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The composite authorship of The Dream of the Rood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2017

Leonard Neidorf
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Scholarship on The Dream of the Rood has long entertained the suspicion that the poem might be the product of composite authorship. Recent criticism has tended to reject this possibility on aesthetic grounds, but the present article identifies new metrical and lexical reasons to believe that The Dream of the Rood contains contributions from at least two poets. It reconstructs the poem's textual history and contends that lines 1–77 represent an original core to which a later poet added lines 78–156.

Type
Research Article
Information
Anglo-Saxon England , Volume 45 , December 2016 , pp. 51 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)