Undergraduates frequently find the fine Old English poem JUDITH the most stimulating of the surviving texts from the Anglo-Saxon period. In the past thirty years it has attracted a …
This volume provides a representative sample of the major genres of English medieval religious lyric. The arrangement of the texts are an important part of its value as an …
This is an edition which presents and discusses the poem "Beowulf", striving for textual conservatism and concise presentation for the needs of literary students.
Exodus is an exceptional Old English poem, written at a time when in the age of Bede Northern England held the intellectual leadership of Europe. It offers a vernacular gateway to …
The Stanzaic Morte Arthur engages with the tragic implications of the chivalric love between Lancelot, Arthur and Guinevere; the Alliterative Morte Arthur with those of the …
Included in this edition are sections on the manuscript, theme and structure, the genesis of the poem, analogues and influences, and date and place of origin, as well as a …
A valuable basic student edition illustrating the variety of subjects and narrative modes that engaged medieval storytellers and their audiences. The verse is made accessible by …
The edition of this poem from the Exeter Book includes appendices of the two Latin sources of the poem and the prose versions of the phoenix story in Old English and Old Icelandic, …
This parallel-text translation in modern English of the medieval comic poem involves a complete reconsideration of the poem's complex textual history, its linguistic provenance and …
