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John D. Niles is Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities (Emeritus), University of Wisconsin - Madison AND Professor of English (Emeritus), University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, Medieval Academy of America, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists and the American Folklore Society.
God's Exiles and English Verse is a volume that serious students of early medieval English poetry will want to have on their shelves. It treats anew the intellectual acumen and artistry of poets and all those who preserved the poetry in this marvelous book. For that, we are in Professor Niles's debt. -- Patrick W. Conner * Speculum * Niles's call for a more contextualized reading of the Exeter Book poems is a much-needed corrective to current literary critical methods, which too often ignore the religious and manuscript context of the Exeter Book poems... Niles's attentiveness to the whole of the collection enriches his approach to individual poems. -- Peter Ramey * Journal of English and Germanic Philology * Often reading individual poems within such a rigid frame work will lead to flat analyses... Niles carefully and successfully avoids this problem. His readings of the Exeter Anthology poems feel fresh, even when they adhere to traditional frameworks of analysis... It is likely that future work on Exeter Anthology poems will have to contend with Niles's thesis. -- Michael Matto * Anglia * Readers of this volume will come away from it with a much better understanding of this fascinating Anthology and the place it occupies in the history of English literature. Emulating the dedicated compilers' tour de force and Bishop Leofric's donation of the volume to Exeter Cathedral, Niles has provided us with a generous scholarly legacy that will no doubt be regarded as a landmark in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. -- Mercedes Salvador-Bello, Universidad de Sevilla * Review of English Studies * ... an extremely useful resource for any investigation into the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. -- Tiffany Beechy * Modern Philology * Consistently insightful... Niles writes with authority and elegance. -- Hugh Magennis * English Studies * John Niles's book is groundbreaking and reveals outstanding literary-critical acumen developed over a long and distinguished career. It will be essential reading for those seeking explication of individual Exeter Book poems or groups of poems. -- Greg Waite * Parergon *
