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10 best books like Anglo-Saxon Poetry (S.A.J. Bradley): Piers Plowman, Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales, River of Stars: Selected Poems, The Major Works: Including Astrophil and Stella, The Romance of the Rose, The Battle of Maldon, Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh (College), The Earliest English Poems, The Poetry Handbook, Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 248)

Piers Plowman
AuthorWilliam Langland
ISBN0393975592
Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland's iconoclastic masterpiece is at once a historical relic and a deeply spiritual vision, probing not only the social and religious aristocracy but also the day-to-day realities of a largely voiceless proletariat class. E. Talbot...
Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales
AuthorSerge A. Zenkovsky
ISBN0452010861
First published in 1963, this unique and pioneering anthology has been continuously used as an invaluable text in Russian studies. Containing over sixty selections from the finest of Russia's medieval authors, much of the material published in this anthology has never before been available in English....
River of Stars: Selected Poems
AuthorAkiko Yosano
ISBN1570621462
Yosano Akiko (1878-942) is one of the most famous Japanese writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of more than seventy-five books, including twenty volumes of original poetry and the definitive translation into modern Japanese of the Tale of the Genji. Although probably best known for...
The Major Works: Including Astrophil and Stella
AuthorPhilip Sidney
ISBN0192840800
This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney's poetry and prose--all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies--that reveals the essence of his work and thinking.
Born in 1554, Sir Philip Sidney was hailed as the perfect Renaissance patron, soldier,...
The Romance of the Rose
AuthorGuillaume de Lorris
ISBN0192839489
This is a new translation of The Romance of the Rose, an allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair which became the most popular and influential of all medieval romances. In the hands of Jean de Meun, who continued de Lorris's work, it assumed vast proportions and embraced almost every...
The Battle of Maldon
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0951620908
The Battle of Maldon
Composed in approx. 1100 AD

This narrative poetry right away made me think of « The Song of Roland.»

Taking my copy off the shelve, I went to compare the dates of these historical events that became legendary related poetry.

The battle in which Roland...
Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh (College)
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0669212121
Although Tolkien fans will no doubt disagree, Klaeber's Beowulf is undoubtably the most important work on the poem ever produced and after ninety years is still the most authoritative edition of the text.

First published in 1922, one of the most exciting periods in Beowulfian studies and...
The Earliest English Poems
AuthorMichael Alexander
ISBN0140445943
Anglo-Saxon poetry was produced between 700 and 1000 AD for an audience that delighted in technical accomplishment, and the durable works of Old English verse spring from the source of the English language.

Michael Alexander has translated the best of the Old English poetry into modern English...
The Poetry Handbook
AuthorJohn Lennard
ISBN0199265380
This volume is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry offer a wide-ranging general account and end by looking at different poems, to build up sustained analytical readings.

The...
Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 248)
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN0866982906
Tolkien's original essay, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, was amazing -- if only for its impact on the study of Beowulf. I'm hard-pressed to think of any other essay that changed the world of literary studies so completely. This essay basically sent scholarship in its current direction, rescuing...
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology
AuthorKevin Crossley-Holland
ISBN0192835475
Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer, among other surviving Anglo-Saxon poems are included in this book. But, besides this, chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms are also incorporated in the anthology.

Kevin Crossley-Holland...
A Guide to Old English
AuthorBruce Mitchell
ISBN0631226362
For more than thirty years, A Guide to Old English has been the standard introduction to Old English language and literature. This updated sixth edition retains the structure and style of the popular previous editions, and includes two new, much-requested texts: Wulf and Eadwacer and Judith.The...
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
AuthorAsser
ISBN0140444092
This is a great book to get hold of if you are interested in the Anglo-Saxons or early medieval history. It's packed full of source material - enough to get the curious going, not just Asser's life of Alfred which fascinatingly stops well before Alfred's death (did Asser just die unbeknown to us before...
Anglo-Saxon England
AuthorF.M. Stenton
ISBN0192801392
Discussing the development of English society, from the growth of royal power to the establishment of feudalism after the Norman Conquest, this book focuses on the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms and the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087. It also describes the chief phases in the history of...
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
AuthorVarious
ISBN1419152319
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original ms. of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great. Multiple copies were made of that original which were distributed...
The Age of Bede
AuthorBede
This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow to the anonymous Voyage of St Brendan - a whimsical mixture of...
Introduction to Old English
AuthorPeter S. Baker
ISBN0631234543
This innovative introduction to the Old English language focuses on what students need to know in order to engage with Old English literary and historical texts.
A pioneering introduction to Old English designed for a new generation of students. Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional...
The Parliament of Birds
AuthorGeoffrey Chaucer
ISBN1843911019
In this collection of poems, among his very best, Chaucer showcases his lyrical skills to perfection. Verging from tragic to comic, the overriding theme of the poetry is love, in its many guises. Chaucer tells of his passion for reading, which allows him to eavesdrop on a "parliament of birds" on St Valentine’s...
The Anglo-Saxons
AuthorJames Campbell
ISBN0140143955
This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles, charters, manuscripts and coins, works of art,...
The Saxon and Norman Kings
AuthorChristopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke
ISBN0631231315
Going back to my potentially never ending programme of deciding whether to read & retain or read & release books from my shelves I returned to Christopher Brooke's The Saxon and Norman Kings. The first few chapters are thematic, followed by some covering broader periods of time before the source...
The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Volume I
AuthorJacobus de Voragine
ISBN0691001537

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, "The Golden Legend" was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. In his new translation, the first in modern English of the complete text from the Graesse edition, William...
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