SOURCE: James H. Wilson, "Cynewulf," in Christian Theology and Old English Poetry, Mouton, 1974, pp. 141-80.
In the essay that follows, Wilson studies the Christ in detail and claims, in contrast to the conclusion reached by some critical scholarship, that the poem is arguably the work of a single author.
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