Abstract
RECENT studies of Old English verse have shown the benefits of considering an interplay of oral and literary poetic strategies, or hybrid poetics, when examining the conventions of vernacu lar poetry.1 It is at this nexus of literary and oral poetics that I would like to locate the following discussion of an Old English poet-patron convention. The approach of hybrid poetics explores extant verse from the supposition that Old English compositions were likely to have been influenced both by the values of Latin Christianity and by oral tradi tion. While the narratives and the rhetorical arts of the literature of
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