Old English Prose and Verse: An Annotated Selection with Introductions and Notes by

ISBN-13: 9781032225869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 242 str.

Roger Fowler

Opis

Originally published in 1966, this book provides students of the earliest stage of our literature with a selection of texts for a complete introductory course. All the principal poems and prose works in this literature are represented, including more generous extracts from Beowulf than are common in anthologies of this type.

Spis treści

Preface.  Abbreviations.  Prose  I: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle  Introduction  1. The Feud of Cynewulf and Cyneheard  2. Alfred’s Wars with the Danes  3. A Portrait of William the Conqueror  II: Alfredian Prose  4. Alfred’s Preface to the Pastoral Care  5. Bede’s Account of the Poet Cædmon  6. The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan  III: Romance  7. Apollonius of Tyre  IV: Homilies  8. The End of the World  9. Wulfstan’s Address to the English  10. Ælfric’s Life of King Oswald.  Verse  I: Heroic Poetry  11. Beowulf  12. The Battle of Maldon  II: Religious Epic  13. Andreas  14. Genesis B  III: Short Poems  15. The Dream of the Rood  16. The Wanderer  17. The Seafarer  18. Deor  IV: Poetic Paraphrase  19. The Phoenix  20. Alfred’s Translation of a Metre of Boethius.  Bibliography.  Notes.  Glossary.

O autorze

Roger Fowler