Cambridge Old English Reader

Name: Cambridge Old English Reader
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ISBN: 9781107641310

ISBN-10: 1107641314

ISBN-13: 9781107641310

Edition: 2nd 2015

Authors: Richard Marsden

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This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition has been extensively revised, with the new section, Beginning Old English, for newcomers to Old English, along with a new extract from Beowulf. The 57 individual texts include favourites such as The Battle of Maldon and Sermon of the Wolf, and others not readily available, like an extract from Apollonius of Tyre. There are Modern English glosses for every prose-passage and poem and extensive notes. A succinct reference grammar is appended, along with a guide to pronunciation and grammatical terminology. The glossary lists and analyses all Old English words that occur in…

Book details

List price: $45.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/2/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 614
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Richard Marsden is Emeritus Professor of Old English in 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 University Press, 1995) and an edition of The Old English Heptateuch for the Early English Text Society (2008).