Fred C. Robinson

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According to Wikipedia, Fred Colson Robinson was an American historian at Yale University. He was widely considered one of the world's foremost authorities on Old English. Biography Robinson received in 1953 his bachelor's degree in English and fine arts from Birmingham–Southern College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English and comparative linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His 1961 doctoral dissertation is titled Variation: A Study in the Diction of 'Beowulf'. After teaching at Stanford University and at Cornell University, he joined the Yale faculty in 1972 and eventually retired there as professor emeritus.

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A guide to Old English (1965) (186)
Syntactical Glosses in Latin Manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon Provenance (1973) (98)
Beowulf and the appositive style (1985) (78)
Beowulf : an edition with relevant shorter texts (1998) (39)
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NAMES IN OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE (1968) (37)
Medieval, the Middle Ages (1984) (30)
The Tomb of Beowulf and Other Essays on Old English (1993) (23)
LEXICOGRAPHY AND LITERARY CRITICISM : A CAVEAT (1970) (23)
Studies in lexicography (1990) (22)
Elements of the marvellous in the characterization of Beowulf: a reconsideration of the textual evidence (1974) (21)
Modes of interpretation in Old English literature : essays in honour of Stanley B. Greenfield (1989) (18)
The Transmission of Old English Poetry (2002) (15)
Consultation and Control The United Provinces' government and its allies, 1860–1906 (1971) (13)
English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton (2008) (12)
A bibliography of publications on Old English literature to the end of 1972: Using the collections of E.E. Ericson (1980) (11)
Old English verse texts from many sources : a comprehensive collection (1991) (11)
A Guide to Old English: Revised with Texts and Glossary (1982) (10)
Alternate Strip Clearcutting in Upland Black Spruce: I. An Introduction (1987) (7)
Eugenic sterilization: medico-legal and sociological aspects. (1979) (7)
Beowulf : a verse translation with treasures of the ancient North (1983) (7)
Lampron—Castle of Armenian Cilicia (1969) (6)
Latin for old english in anglo-saxon manuscripts (1982) (5)
NOTES ON THE OLD ENGLISH EXODUS (1962) (4)
Word-indices to Old English non-poetic texts (1974) (4)
Old English Poetry: The Question of Authorship (1990) (4)
White spruce seed tree system with mechanical seedbed preparation. (1977) (3)
Is Wealhpeow a prince's daughter? (1964) (3)
Anglo-Saxon Onomastics in the Old English Andreas (1973) (3)
The editing of Old English (1994) (3)
The language of paganism in Beowulf: A response to an ill-omened essay (1999) (2)
Five Textual Notes on the Old English Judith (2002) (2)
Anglo-Saxon Studies: Present State and Future Prospects (1975) (2)
Variation : a study in the diction of Beowulf (1979) (2)
Tense and the Sense of Blake's “The Tyger” (1966) (2)
Germanic *uargaz (OE wearh) and the Finnish Evidence (2008) (2)
Appropriate Naming in English Literature (1972) (2)
The Anglo‐Saxon Poetic Tradition (2009) (1)
The Routledge History of English Poetry. Volume I. Old and Middle English Poetry (1981) (1)
A Further Word on dollīcra in Beowulf 2646 (1993) (1)
Old English literature;: A select bibliography (1970) (1)
Mise en page in Old English Manuscripts and Printed Texts (2005) (1)
The Adoption of Technical Terms in Popular Discourse (2011) (1)
‘THE COMPLAYNT OFF SANCT CIPRIANE, THE GRETT NIGROMANCER’ A POEM BY ANTHONY ASCHAM (1976) (1)
On the Semantic Relevance of the Alliterative Collocation in "Beowulf". Mariann Reinhard (1978) (0)
Verb Tense in Blake's “The Tyger” (1964) (0)
R. D. Fulk, An Introductory Grammar of Old English with an Anthology of Readings, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS): (2015) (0)
VI. AN INTRODUCTION TO ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES (1982) (0)
The Continental Backgrounds of English and Its Insular Development until 1154 (2001) (0)
Ananya Jahanara Kabir. Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 32.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 210. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-80600-3. (2003) (0)
“YEA” FOR THE LETTER “YOGH” (1976) (0)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF HERBERT DEAN MERITT (1970) (0)
The State of the Language (2010) (0)
Allan A. Metcalf, Poetic Diction in the Old English Meters of Boethius . (De Proprietatibus Litterarum, Series Practica, 50.) The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1973. Paper. Pp. x , 166. Glds 28. (1977) (0)
Retrospection in old English and other early Germanic literatures (2001) (0)
HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE (1982) (0)
Book Review: Policy and Change in Thatcher's Britain (1993) (0)
Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED (review) (1996) (0)
66. Mansfield’s the Garden Party (1966) (0)
Old English Poetry: Fifteen Essays. Robert P. Creed (1970) (0)
Allen J. Frantzen, Desire for Origins: New Language, Old English, and Teaching the Tradition . New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1990. Pp. xix, 260. $35 (cloth); $15 (paper). (1993) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1981) (0)
INDEX OF WORDS (1982) (0)
Donald K. Fry, Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburh: A Bibliography . Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1969. Pp. xx , 222. $12.50. (1971) (0)
I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON THE LANGUAGE (1982) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1988) (0)
Approaches to Teaching 'Beowulf'@@@The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology@@@'Beowulf' and the Appositive Style@@@Old English Minor Heroic Poems (1988) (0)
“BEOWULF” 1917–19 (1966) (0)
Virginia Blanton and Helene Scheck (eds.) Intertexts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Paul E. Szarmach. (2010) (0)
The Pleasures of Passé Poets (2013) (0)
Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank (2007) (0)
IV. WORD FORMATION (1982) (0)
The State of the Language (2008) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1986) (0)
Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 29, No. 1 (2018) (0)
Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Settlement Names in the East Midlands . (Navnestudier, 16.) Copenhagen: I kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1978. Paper. Pp. xxiv, 406. (1980) (0)
National Endowment for the Humanities: Council Reappointments (1984): Correspondence 10 (1984) (0)
Klaeber's "Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg.". R. D. Fulk , Robert E. Bjork , John D. Niles , Helen Damico (2009) (0)
C. L. Wrenn, ed. Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment . Fully revised by W. F. Bolton. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973. Pp. 301. $7.95. (1977) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1983) (0)
M. S. Hetherington, The Beginnings of Old English Lexicography. Spicewood, Texas: M. Sue Hetherington, 1980. Paper. Pp. viii, 343. (1983) (0)
II. Literary History, Criticism, Versification (1970) (0)
God, Death, and Loyalty in The Battle of Maldon (2017) (0)
Oral Theory: Formulaic Composition in Old English and Old Icelandic Verse.Paul Acker (2000) (0)

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