'Displays a wealth of scholarship.'
Michael Swanton,
Times Educational Supplement 25 Nov 1977
'Many first-rate contributions to the study of the poem.'
Robert T. Farrell,
Review of English Studies 29 (1978)
A fine piece of work.'
J.R. Hall, Year's Work in Old English Studies - 1977 in
Old English Newsletter 12 (1978)
'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)
'In many respects exemplary as an edition of an Old English poem.'
D. Jost in
Speculum 54 (1979)
'Twenty-six years after his second, revised edition of the Old English poem
Exodus, Peter J. Lucas supplies a welcome third edition of this important text [...] the edition provides not only an excellent introduction to the text and important aspects of the study of Old English literature in general to the student beginner but will remain a staple on any Old English scholars bookshelf."Judith Kaup,
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