Reviews for Chaucer's Religious Tales

The average rating for Chaucer's Religious Tales based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-10-09 00:00:00 Erja Vaajoki Through out the later twentieth century Fred C Robinson was one of the worlds foremost experts in Old English literature, taking Beowulf studies by storm with his masterful Beowulf and The Appositive Style and then gaining a kind of popular fame for his Guide to Old English and new edition of Beowulf, both alongside Bruce Mitchell. In this volume of collected essays Blackwell's give us a chance to read some of Robinson's more obscure academic essays. The book collects forty of his essays that include interpretations of Beowulf and numerous other Old English poems, essays on variation, editing Old English texts and Germanic views of prophesying women. Table of Contents Foreword. Acknowledgments. 1. Literary Interpretation: Beowulf. 2. Literary Interpretation: Several Poems. 3. Textual Criticism. 4. Manuscript Contexts:. 5. Three Editions of the Old English Texts. 6. Women in Old English Literature. 7. Names in Old English Literature. 8. Linguistic Studies in Old English. 9. Old English in the Twentieth Century. List of Essays and Notes by Fred C. Robinson not included in this volume. List of Reviews by Fred C. Robinson. Index.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-02-25 00:00:00 Guy Johnston I despise Propertius, finding him dull and difficult, but I adore Ovid's Heroides, which are included in this anthology, and also Catullus 64. The Tibullus is alright - his vocab isn't as tricky, and he's not as windy and horrible as Propertius. I know Propertius is an elegaic classic and blahblahblah, I just couldn't handle him. Give me Catullus or Ovid any time. Miller's notes are fairly helpful throughout, making the Latin less tricky and easier to plow through.