Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse

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ISBN: 9780571228362

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	HAMER RICHARD
Pub Date	01/06/2006
Binding	Paperback
Pages	208

Publisher: Faber & Faber

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Contains the Old English texts of almost all the major short poems, such as "The Battle of Maldon", "The Dream of the Rood", "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer". These poems are the wellspring of the English poetic tradition, and this anthology provides a window into the mind and culture of the Anglo-Saxons.

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This new edition 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 7th to the 12th centuries, with facing-page verse translations. These poems are the wellspring of the English poetic tradition, and this anthology provides a unique window into the mind and culture of the Anglo-Saxons.