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

References
  1. "YaleNews | In memoriam: Fred C. Robinson, scholar of Old English language and literature". News.yale.edu. 2016-05-16. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
  2. Abramowitz, Michael J. "Yale Medievalist Turns Down Tenure; Harvard Temporarily Delays Search | News | The Harvard Crimson". Thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2016-09-10.


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