Scope and Contents From the Collection: Edward B. Irving (1923-1998), was a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania from 1960 to 1993. He also taught at Yale University. He specialized in medieval literature, but could lecture on a variety of topics from Shakespeare to James Joyce. He was a member of both the Medieval Academy of America and the Modern Language Association of America. He published several books, among them An Introduction to Beowulf which was included in Prentice-Halls’...

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Reprinted from Old English Poetry: Fifteen Essays edited by Robert P. Creed, 7 pages