Select translations from Old English poetry
By: edited with prefatory notes and indexes by Albert S. Cook ... and Chauncey B. Tinker ...
Contributors: Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876-1963, joint ed.
Edition: Rev. ed. ...
Publisher: Ginn and Company
Published: 1926
Place of publication: Boston; New York [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Modernized versions.
Genres: Modernized versions.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 172-173.
--Index of media.--Index of titles.
Table of contents: title: I. Epic and historical pieces: Widsith. Selections from Beowulf. The battle of Brunanburh. The battle of Maldon.; title: II. Secular lyrics: The seafarer. The wanderer. The ruined city. Deor's lament. A love-letter. The banished wife's complaint. Gnomic verses. Riddles.; title: III. Religious lyrics: Cædmon's hymn. Bede's death song. Selections from the Christ. The dream of the rood. Ruthwell cross inscription. Brussels cross inscription.; title: IV. Biblical poems: Selections from the Genesis. Selections from the Exodus. Judith.; title: V. Saints' legends: Selections from the Andreas. Selections from the Elene.; title: VI. Religious mythology: The Phœnix.; title: VII. Charms.; title: Bibliography: References for students of Old English poetry.; title: Appendix I. Selections from the verse-translations of Beowulf.; title: Appendix II. The song of Brunanburh.; title: Appendix III. Bede's account of the poet Cædmon.; title: Appendix IV. Fragment I of the Old Saxon Genesis, and the Old English Genesis, 790-820.; title: Index of subjects.