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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Dream of the Rood Information
2,266 words, approx. 8 pages
 The Dream of the Rood is one of the earliest Christian poems in the corpus of Anglo-Saxon literature and an intriguing example of the genre of dream poetry. Like all Old English poetry, it is written in alliterative verse. Rood is from the Anglo-Saxon... 
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 ANQ The Dream of the Rood Line 31.
03/22/1999: 858 words, approx. 3 pages The account of the crucifixion narrated by the personified Cross in the Old English poem The Dream of the Rood begins as follows (lines 28-33a): paet waes geara iu, (ic paet gyta geman), paet ic waes aheawen holtes on ende, astyred... summary from source:
Philological Quarterly The feminized cross of 'The Dream of the Rood.'
01/01/1997: 7,642 words, approx. 26 pages The Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Dream of the Rood' portrays a feminized Cross dominated by an aggressively heterosexual Christ. Analysis of the poem shows how the opposition between masculine and feminine is inherently violent, requiring the complicity of the feminine and placing the dreamer and...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by John V. Fleming
12,390 words, approx. 41 pages
Below, Fleming examines the characters, language, and themes of The Dream of the Rood, calling the poem "a carved celebration of the monastic ideals" of English Benedictinism.
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Critical Essay by Louis H. Leiter
10,733 words, approx. 36 pages
In this essay, Leiter studies the transformation of the poem's three characters: Christ, the Cross, and the Dreamer.
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Critical Essay by Rosemary Woolf
7,411 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Woolf assesses The Dream of the Rood 's emphasis on Christ's supremacy and suffering, stating that the poet "reflected exactly the doctrinal pattern of thought of his time. '
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