Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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

• Authors: Henry Sweet
• Assisted by: Dorothy Whitelock (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.1991
• EAN: 9780198111696
• ISBN: 978-0-19-811169-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 123 mm x 186 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Fiction > Narrative literature