John D. Niles is Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities (Emeritus), University of Wisconsin – Madison AND Professor of English (Emeritus), University of California, Berkeley.He is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, Medieval Academy of America, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists and the American Folklore Society.

God’s Exiles and English Verse is a volume that serious students of early medieval English poetry will want to have on their shelves. It treats anew the intellectual acumen and artistry of poets and all those who preserved the poetry in this marvelous book. For that, we are in Professor Niles’s debt.

• Part One: Reading the Anthology in its Historical Context                                                         Monastic Poetics                                                                                                                  Scribes, Authors, Compilers, and Readers                                                                        Exeter, Glastonbury, and the Benedictine Reform                                                         Part Two: Reading the Anthology as a Codicological WholeAn Overview of the Book’s ContentsPrinciples of order                                                The book’s opening parts, Advent Lyrics to JulianaVoices of wisdom: The Wanderer and related poems                     The voice of the sage: A Father’s Precepts and related poems     Voices from the Germanic past: Widsith and related poems        Diversity within unity: the role of simulated speech                       The book’s closing parts, The Panther to the end                             Teaching the Tools of the Poet’s TradeThe Enigmas — a Special Problem?                                                                Poetry and Worldview                                                                             KeywordsIntratextual HermeneuticsSummary and ConclusionsAppendix 1: A translation of The Wanderer                                       Appendix 2: Folio-by-folio contents of the Exeter Anthology                             Appendix 3: Latin genre terms and the poems of the Exeter Anthology

John D. Niles is Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities (Emeritus), University of Wisconsin – Madison AND Professor of English (Emeritus), University of California, Berkeley.He is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, Medieval Academy of America, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists and the American Folklore Society.

God’s Exiles and English Verse is a volume that serious students of early medieval English poetry will want to have on their shelves. It treats anew the intellectual acumen and artistry of poets and all those who preserved the poetry in this marvelous book. For that, we are in Professor Niles’s debt.

• Part One: Reading the Anthology in its Historical Context                                                         Monastic Poetics                                                                                                                  Scribes, Authors, Compilers, and Readers                                                                        Exeter, Glastonbury, and the Benedictine Reform                                                         Part Two: Reading the Anthology as a Codicological WholeAn Overview of the Book’s ContentsPrinciples of order                                                The book’s opening parts, Advent Lyrics to JulianaVoices of wisdom: The Wanderer and related poems                     The voice of the sage: A Father’s Precepts and related poems     Voices from the Germanic past: Widsith and related poems        Diversity within unity: the role of simulated speech                       The book’s closing parts, The Panther to the end                             Teaching the Tools of the Poet’s TradeThe Enigmas — a Special Problem?                                                                Poetry and Worldview                                                                             KeywordsIntratextual HermeneuticsSummary and ConclusionsAppendix 1: A translation of The Wanderer                                       Appendix 2: Folio-by-folio contents of the Exeter Anthology                             Appendix 3: Latin genre terms and the poems of the Exeter Anthology

John D. Niles is Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities (Emeritus), University of Wisconsin – Madison AND Professor of English (Emeritus), University of California, Berkeley.He is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, Medieval Academy of America, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists and the American Folklore Society.

God’s Exiles and English Verse is a volume that serious students of early medieval English poetry will want to have on their shelves. It treats anew the intellectual acumen and artistry of poets and all those who preserved the poetry in this marvelous book. For that, we are in Professor Niles’s debt.

• Part One: Reading the Anthology in its Historical Context                                                         Monastic Poetics                                                                                                                  Scribes, Authors, Compilers, and Readers                                                                        Exeter, Glastonbury, and the Benedictine Reform                                                         Part Two: Reading the Anthology as a Codicological WholeAn Overview of the Book’s ContentsPrinciples of order                                                The book’s opening parts, Advent Lyrics to JulianaVoices of wisdom: The Wanderer and related poems                     The voice of the sage: A Father’s Precepts and related poems     Voices from the Germanic past: Widsith and related poems        Diversity within unity: the role of simulated speech                       The book’s closing parts, The Panther to the end                             Teaching the Tools of the Poet’s TradeThe Enigmas — a Special Problem?                                                                Poetry and Worldview                                                                             KeywordsIntratextual HermeneuticsSummary and ConclusionsAppendix 1: A translation of The Wanderer                                       Appendix 2: Folio-by-folio contents of the Exeter Anthology                             Appendix 3: Latin genre terms and the poems of the Exeter Anthology