Eric Gerald Stanley (1923–2018)
Author of The Owl and the Nightingale
About the Author
Series
Works by Eric Gerald Stanley
Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past: The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury (1975) 17 copies, 1 review
Associated Works
Beowulf: A Prose Translation [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1975) — Contributor — 415 copies, 2 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Stanley, Eric Gerald
- Birthdate
- 1923-10-19
- Date of death
- 2018-06-21
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
University of Oxford
University Of Birmingham, England, UK
Yale University - Occupations
- linguist
professor (Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford)
editor (Notes and Queries) - Organizations
- University of Oxford (academic)
Pembroke College (fellow)
British Academy (fellow) - Short biography
- Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor Emeritus of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- England, UK
- Places of residence
- England, UK
USA - Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
Members
Reviews
Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past: The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury by Eric Gerald Stanley
critiques idea that old English poetry and literature betrays Paganism of authors. Once popular theory based on romantic view of German character
Ex libris Siegried Wenzel. Ex libris John S. Kenyon (with his marginal comments, mostly acerbic).
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- Works
- 10
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 149
- Popularity
- #139,412
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 20
- Languages
- 2