Early English Literature (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Translated from German by Horace Kennedy, ten Brink's booksets out to further a historical understanding of English literature while introducing it to a wider audience. Beginning with the coming of the Anglo-Saxon tribes in the fifth century, andon through the transitions in language after the Norman Conquest, this detailed history traces the development of English literaturefromthe poems of Caedmon and BeowulftoLangland's Piers Plowman.