SOURCE: "The Dream of the Rood: Patterns of Transformation," in Old English Poetry: Fifteen Essays, edited by Robert P. Creed, Brown University Press, 1967, pp. 93-127.
In this essay, Leiter studies the transformation of the poem's three characters: Christ, the Cross, and the Dreamer.
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