Palumbo Edward M. The Literary Use of Formulas in Guthlac II and their Relation to Felix’s Vita Sancti Guthlaci

De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 88 p. — (De Proprietatibus Litterarum. Series Practica 37).This book can also be seen as a beginning study in the opposites of freedom and order: how the Guthlac II poet in a unique way used formula's or "parallel phrases", and how within the strict limits of Sievers' five verse types he expressed large emotion about the life and death of St. Guthlac. The knowledge that freedom and order are crucial to all poetry, including Guthlac II, arises from Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy which I am currently studying with its founder, Eli Siegel, poet, critic, and author of Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems. A central principle of Aesthetic Realism is: "All beauty is the making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." I wish to thank Mr. Siegel for teaching a new way to see all poetry and its relation to the self, which I intend to explore in future works, and which I believe honors the intention and achievement of the Guthlac II poet.