Old English Shorter Poems

Alongside famous long works such as Beowulf, Old English poetry offers a large number of shorter compositions, many of them on explicitly Christian themes. This volume of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library presents twenty-nine of these shorter religious poems composed in Old and early Middle English between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Among the texts, which demonstrate the remarkable versatility of early English verse, are colorful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674057899
• ISBN13: 9780674057890
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.1"