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Synopsis
This collection of 29 papers is in honor of E. G. Stanley. Written by scholars he has supervised within the last 20 years, the essays gathered here illustrate the advantages of following John Donne's axiom "doubt wisely." The primary focus of the collection is on the close reading of words in their immediate context. Contributors provide new analyses of such difficult but rewarding fields as Old English meter and syntax, Beowulf, the origins and development of standard English, Middle English poetry and prose and the post-medieval receptions of medieval works.