Tom CableThomas Cable is Jane Weinert Blumberg Chair Emeritus of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Meter and Melody of Beowulf (1974), The English Alliterative Tradition (1991), with Albert Baugh, and A History of the English Language, 3rd, 4th, and 5th editions (1978-2002). He has also co-edited The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry (1991) with R. Baltzer and J. Wimsatt. Read More Read Less