Overviews of Old English Literature

    Surveys and General Discussions
  • Godden, Malcolm and Michael Lapidge, ed. The Cambridge companion to Old English literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  • Aertsen, Henk and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., ed. Companion to Old English Poetry. Amsterdam: VU University P, 1994.
  • Berkhout, Carl T. and Milton McC. Gatch, ed. Anglo-Saxon scholarship: the first three centuries. Boston: Hall, 1982.
  • Greenfield, S.B. and Daniel G. Calder. A New Critical History of Old EnglishLiterature. New York: New York UP, 1986.
  • Stanley, E.G., ed. Continuations and Beginnings. London: Nelson, 1966. (Chapters on Alfred, Aelfric, Wulfstan as well as others on poetry.)
  • Wrenn, C.L. A Study of Old English Literature. New York: Norton, 1967.
  • Bessinger, Jess B. Essential Articles for the study of Old English poetry. Hamden: Archon, 1968.
  • Stevens, Martin and Jerome Mandel. Old English literature: twenty-two analyatical essays. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1968.
  • Gordon, Ian. The Movement of English Prose. London: Longman, 1966.
    Translations of Old English Verse and Prose
  • Bradley, S.A.J., trans. Anglo-Saxon Peotry. Everyman. Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1991.
  • Crossley-Holland, Kevin ed. And trans. The Anglo-Saxon Wordl: An Anthology. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984.
  • Swanton, Michael, ed. And trans. Anglo-Saxon Prose. London: Dent: 1975.

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