Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse / Edition 15

by Henry Sweet, Dorothy Whitelock

Overview

This popular reader—a standard since its first edition in 1876—helps students acquire a sound elementary knowledge Old English by studying of a rich variety of poetry and prose. Selections cover a wide range of dialects and genres, from an early Northumbrian form of Caedmon's Hymn and ninth-century Kentish charters to the complete texts of The Dream of the Rood and Wulfstan's Address to the English, with ample literary and historical notes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198111696
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/04/1975
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	418
Product dimensions:	7.31(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.73(d)