Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse: Parallel Text - Hardcover

Hamer, Richard Frederick Sanger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571087647 ISBN 13: 9780571087648

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1970

Synopsis

A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments, riddles and gnomic verses that survive from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, with facing-page verse translations. These poems are the well-spring of the English poetic tradition, and this anthology provides a unique window into the mind and culture of the Anglo-Saxons.

The volume is an essential companion to Faber's edition of Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney.

About this title

Book Description

The essential canon of Old English poetry, with parallel verse translation, in this now classic edition.

About the Author

Richard Hamer is Tutor in English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571087647
• ISBN 13: 9780571087648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208