Background
Tripp, Raymond Plummer was born on December 15, 1932 in Acushnet, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Raymond Plummer and Mildred Evelyn (Willis) Tripp.
(This collection of essays aims at freeing "Beowulf" from ...)
This collection of essays aims at freeing "Beowulf" from the burden of its critical past - and future. It begins with a balanced yet unsparing review of the uses and abuses of contemporary criticism, and continues with answers for questions familiar to students of the poem: the Christian/Pagan dilemma, the connection with the Grettis Saga, the value of treasure, the role of drinking, the identity of the messenger, the poet on poetry, the poet's rhetoric, the events in Heorot, the notorious gifstol crux, the importance of wordplay, and the poet's understanding of fate. Other essays also engage a wide range of general topics: the poet's lively sense of humour, use of the Liber Monstrorum, the poet's scatology and canonical parody, sartorial anticipation of Carlyle, and more.
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Tripp, Raymond Plummer was born on December 15, 1932 in Acushnet, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Raymond Plummer and Mildred Evelyn (Willis) Tripp.
Bachelor, U. Massachusetts, 1960; Master of Arts, U. Toronto, Ontario, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, Union Graduate School, 1971.
Assistant professor, Clarion (Pennsylvania) State College, 1964-1967; professor, U. Denver, since 1968. Visiting professor Hirosaki College, Japan, 1980-1981.
(This lively collection of essays aims at freeing the poem...)
(This collection of essays aims at freeing "Beowulf" from ...)
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President University professors for Academy Order, Washington, 1989-1990. With United States Army, 1954-1957. Member Society for New Language Study (founder 1972).
Married Susan Jane Scofield, June 6, 1959.