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Title: The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press).) by Kevin Crossley-Holland ISBN: 0-19-283547-5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: beautiful renderings of the elegies
Comment: I bought this book in an old edition paperback form in Dublin because it contained the major elegies such as the Wanderer and the Seafarer. I ended up being extremely satisifed not only with the beautiful translation of the Wanderer, but with all of the selections and with Crossley-Holland's comments. I was very thrilled to meet him recently at a reading in Seattle, where he was promoting his Arthur trilogy. I'll have to check that out.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Fine Sampler
Comment: Another gem of the Oxford World's Classics series, Crossley-Holland's anthology presents a generous selection of poetry and prose covering the major genres of Anglo Saxon Lit. All the famous stuff is here -- Seafarer, Wanderer, Battle of Maldon,etc -- including a very fine Beowulf translation that's highly readable without straying far from the literal meaning of the original. Plus riddles, laws, sections of the Chronicle -- quite enough to get a rounded picture of this fascinating literature, and all well translated. The scholarly notes are sparse but adequate for an intro-level text. If I could make one suggestion for improvement, it would be to add the Anglo-Saxon versions in a bilingual edition, so readers could have the sound and structure of the originals.
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Title: The Anglo-Saxons (Penguin History) by James Campbell, Eric John, Patrick Wormald ISBN: 0140143955 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources (Penguin Classics) by John Asser, Simon Keynes, Michael Lapidge ISBN: 0140444092 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1984 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Beowulf Reader : Basic Readings (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England, Volume 1) by Peter S. Baker ISBN: 0815336667 Publisher: Garland Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Ecclesiastical History of the English People With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthberts Letter on the Death of Bede (Penguin Classics) by Bede, D.H. Farmer, Leo Sherley-Price ISBN: 014044565X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Anglo-Saxon England by Frank M. Stenton ISBN: 0192801392 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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