Old English Poems
by Cosette Faust Newton
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About this eBook
- Translator
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976
- Title
- Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Carla Foust, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Modernized versions
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 31172
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31172
- Release Date
- February 3, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.OLD ENGLISH POEMS
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.I. PAGAN POETRY — 1. EPIC OR HEROIC GROUP — WIDSITH — DEOR’S LAMENT — WALDHERE — A — B — THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG — 2. GNOMIC GROUP — CHARMS — RIDDLES — EXETER GNOMES — THE FATES OF MEN — 3. ELEGIAC GROUP — THE WANDERER — THE SEAFARER — THE WIFE’S LAMENT — THE HUSBAND’S MESSAGE — THE RUIN
- 5.II. CHRISTIAN POETRY — 1. CÆDMONIAN SCHOOL — SELECTIONS FROM GENESIS — GENESIS A — SELECTIONS FROM EXODUS — 2. CYNEWULF AND HIS SCHOOL — a . CYNEWULF — SELECTIONS FROM THE CHRIST — SELECTIONS FROM THE ELENE — b . ANONYMOUS POEMS OF THE CYNEWULFIAN SCHOOL — THE DREAM OF THE ROOD — JUDITH — THE PHŒNIX — THE GRAVE
- 6.III. POEMS FROM THE CHRONICLE — THE BATTLE OF BRUNNANBURG — THE BATTLE OF MALDON
- 7.APPENDIX—SELECTIONS FROM OLD ENGLISH PROSE — ACCOUNT OF THE POET CÆDMON — ALFRED’S PREFACE TO HIS TRANSLATION OF GREGORY’S “PASTORAL CARE” — THE CONVERSION OF EDWIN. — THE VOYAGES OF OHTHERE AND WULFSTAN
- 8.INDEX TO TITLES
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