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The Cambridge Old English Reader

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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard MarsdenPublish date:2015-04-06Pages:614
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107641310ISBN-10:1107641314UPC:9781107641310Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SC6FH8E4E3
This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with the addition of a new 'Beginning Old English' section for newcomers to the Old English language, along with a new extract from Beowulf. The fifty-seven individual texts include established favourites such as The Battle of Maldon and Wulfstan's Sermon of the Wolf, as well as others not otherwise readily available, such as an extract from Apollonius of Tyre. Modern English glosses for every prose-passage and poem are provided on the same page as the text, along with extensive notes. A succinct reference grammar is appended, along with guides to pronunciation and to grammatical terminology. A comprehensive glossary lists and analyses all the Old English words that occur in the book. Headnotes to each of the six text sections, and to every individual text, establish their literary and historical contexts, and illustrate the rich cultural variety of Anglo-Saxon England. This second edition is an accessible and scholarly introduction to Old English.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107641310ISBN-10:1107641314UPC:9781107641310Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SC6FH8E4E3
Marsden, Richard: - Richard Marsden is Emeritus Professor of Old English at the University of Nottingham. In addition to numerous articles on Old English literature and language and the history of the Latin Bible, he has published The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge, 1995) and an edition of The Old English Heptateuch for the Early English Text Society (2008).
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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2nd Revised Edition

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Richard Marsden

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