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Article: Blutezeit. Festschrift fur L. Peter Johnson zum 70. Geburtstag.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2002
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Blutezeit. Festschrift fur L. Peter Johnson zum 70. Geburtstag. Ed. by MARK CHINCA, JOACHIM HEINZLE, and CHRISTOPHER YOUNG. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2000. ix + 488 pp. + 2 illustrations. DM 196.
Twenty-six friends and colleagues have contributed articles, some in German, some in English, to mark the seventieth birthday of Cambridge's eternally youthful Peter Johnson.
The section on lyric poetry opens with a useful survey by Olive Sayce on the invocation by MHG lyric poets of 'exemplary figures of mythology, medieval narrative, the bible or history' for purposes of comparison. This is followed by Christopher Young's close analysis of two widely differing poems by ...