Forgotten Ground Regained
Charles R. Sleeth
Charles Robert Sleeth (1915-1997) was an American from West Virginia. He studied at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and served as etymology editor for Websters Third New International Dictionary. From 1962 to 1984, he taught English at Brooklyn College. In addition to articles on Old and Middle English literature, he was the author of Studies in Christ and Satan (Toronto University Press, 1982).
In 1984 he won the Cædmon Prize for his modern English poem in alliterative verse, After the Flood. His poetry is reprinted here with the permisson of his family.
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