Fred C. Robinson

Fred Colson Robinson (23 September 1930 – 5 May 2016) was a scholar of Old English at Yale University;^[1] he was widely considered one of the world's foremost authorities on Old English.^[2]

Bibliography

Works authored

• Mitchell, Bruce; Fred C. Robinson (2012). A Guide to Old English (8 ed.). Oxford, Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-4690-6.  (first published 1965)
• Old English Literature: A Select Bibliography (1970)
• A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972 (with Stanley B. Greenfield, 1980)
• ‘Beowulf’ and the Appositive Style (1985)
• Old English Verse Texts from Many Sources (editor with E.G. Stanley, 1991)
• The Tomb of Beowulf (1993)
• The Editing of Old English (1994)
• Mitchell, Bruce; Fred C. Robinsion; Leslie Webster (1998). Beowulf: An Edition with Relevant Shorter Texts. Oxford, Malden: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-17226-0.  (first published 1998)

Selected articles

• ‘The American Element in "Beowulf,"” in English studies vol. 49 (1968) p. 508-516.
• The Aesthetics of “Cædmon's Hymn,” in Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering, 2014.

Festschrift

• Baker, Peter and Nicholas Howe. Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honor of Fred C. Robinson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998

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