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No one interested in the Old English poem Exodus can afford to be without this edition. * Notes and Queries. * 'In many respects exemplary as an edition of an Old English poem.' D. Jost in Speculum 54 (1979) 'It is not too large a claim to say that ultimately . . . English poetic criticism and appreciation as a whole will benefit from Dr Lucas's careful and scholarly work.' D.G. Scragg in Critical Quartely 20 (1978) 'A fine piece of work.' J.R. Hall, Year's Work in Old English Studies - 1977 in Old English Newsletter 12 (1978) 'Many first-rate contributions to the study of the poem.' Robert T. Farrell, Review of English Studies 29 (1978) 'Displays a wealth of scholarship.' Michael Swanton, Times Educational Supplement 25 Nov 1977

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Peter J. Lucas is presently Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic in the University of Cambridge, and is Emeritus Professor of Old and Middle English at University College Dublin, where he taught English Language and Medieval English Literature. He is the author of several books, including the facsimile edition of Franciscus Junius’s Cædmonis Monachi Paraphrasis Poetica Genesios, originally published in 1655 (Amsterdam, 2000), which includes the first edition ever of the Old English Exodus. Other books include From Author to Audience: John Capgrave and Medieval Publication (Dublin 1997), and The Medieval Manuscripts at Maynooth: Explorations in the Unknown, with Angela M. Lucas (Dublin, 2014), as well as several volumes in the series Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile. He has also written ninety or so articles on Old and Middle English, the history of the English language, and the early printing of Anglo-Saxon.

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