on recently available materials, notably the microfiche, "Concordances", the first letters of the new "Old English Dictionary", and Bruce Mitchell's "Old English Syntax B" to make new suggestions about problematic words and passages. Going beyond an exploration of the literary potential of individual poems, Klinck examines them as separate manifestations of a common generic impulse. She moves from palaeographical and philological detail to broader literary and cultural considerations and, finally, to a definition of Old English elegys.

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