The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons / / George Kumler Anderson.

This is a one-volume descriptive history of English literature from the beginning to the Norman Conquest. Emphasis is literary rather than linguistic.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1966
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1908
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Physical Description:1 online resource (460 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • I. The Anglo-Saxons
  • II. A Foreword to the Literature of the Anglo-Saxons
  • III. The Old English Heroic Epic Poems
  • IV. The Old English Christian Epic
  • V. Miscellaneous Old English Poetry
  • VI. A Note on Old English Literature and the Drama
  • VII. Anglo-Latin Literature in the Old English Period
  • VIII. The Work of King Alfred
  • IX. Aelfric and His Works
  • X. Wulfstan's Works and other Homiletic Prose
  • XI. Secular Didactic Writing in Old English Prose
  • XII. Prose Fiction of the Old English Period
  • XIII. Scientific Writings in the Old English Period
  • XIV. Retrospect
  • Further Additions to the Notes
  • Index