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In the first edition of the Exeter Book, published in 1842, Mr. Thorpe, the editor, divided the contents of the first twentysix leaves (pp. 1-106 of the printed edition), into twenty separate sections or poems, and gave to each a title drawn from the subject treated. He evidently considered the whole a collection of hymns, and failed to see the connection of the separate pieces with one another. Perhaps this failure was the cause of the low estimate of their literary value, which he expresses in his preface and notes. Eleven years later, Dietrich, in an article in the "Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum", put forth the theory that what Thorpe had published as a series of hymns was a single poem, and proposed the name "Christ". Both the theory and the name have been accepted by all critics, anl the two editions that have appeared since Dietrich's article, (Grein's in 1856 and Gollancz's in 1892) treat the work as a single poem. Gollancz even goes so far as to entitle it "an eighth century epic". Dietrich's arguments for the unity of the work are based chiefly on the thread of thought which he finds, as he thinks, running through the whole. Most of this article is therefore devoted

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Author

F. A. BLACKBURN

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG; Walter de Gruyter GmbH (ISSN 0340-5222)

Published

1897

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)