num_pages: 220
description: Mr Shippey's book covers the whole range of Old English poetry: the heroic poems notably Beowulf and Malden; the elegies such as The Wanderer and The Seafarer; the Bible stories and lives of the saints which mark the end of pagan influence and the beginning of Christian inspiration; the Junius Manuscript; and finally King Alfred. All the many quotations are translated.
language: English
title: Old English verse,
publisher: Hutchinson