Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse

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.

• Author
• Henry Sweet, Dorothy Whitelock

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 418

• Publisher
• Oxford University Press, USA

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780198111696

• Genres
• poetry, language, linguistics, medieval, history, literature, classics

• Release date
• 1975