Wisdom of Poetry

Larry D. Benson was a professor of English at Harvard University. He was the general editor of the Riverside Chaucer and published widely on Chaucer. Siegfried Wenzel is professor emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the chair of the Chaucer Library Committee.

• PrefaceUnderstanding an Old English Wisdom Verse: Maxims II, Lines 10ff by Fred C. RobinsonSapientia et Fortitudo in the Old English Judith by Robert E. KaskeThe Drama of The Wanderer by William AlfredOf Words and Deeds: The Coastguard's Maxim Once More by Stanley B. GreenfieldThe Beowulf Poet's Sense of History by Roberta FrankLangland and Some Scriptural Quotations by E. Talbot DonaldsonThe Perplexities of William Langland by George KaneNarration and the Invention of Experience: Episodic Form in Piers Plowman by Anne MiddletonThe Occasion of The Parliament of Fowls by Larry D. BensonVenus in the "north-north-west"? Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls, 117 by Alan J. LazarusThe Philosophies in Chaucer's Troilus by Donald R. HowardMiracles of the Virgin, Medieval Anti-Semitism, and the "Prioress's Tale" by Robert Worth Frank Jr.Chaucer's Lists by Stephen A. BarneyThe Wisdom of the Fool by Siegfried WenzelThe Publications of Morton W. Bloomfield: 1939–1981 by George Hardin BrownNotes