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10 best books like The Battle of Maldon (Anonymous): Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Piers Plowman, River of Stars: Selected Poems, Ode to the West Wind, Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I, Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh (College), The Earliest English Poems, Anglo-Saxon Poetry, Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 248), The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology

Ecclesiastical History of the English People
AuthorBede
One night a group of monks from Durham cathedral seized Bede's remains and took them back to Durham for reburial there, making Bede one of those people who have ended up travelling further in death than they ever did while alive.

The give away fact about this book is it's title. What Bede wants...
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...
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...
Ode to the West Wind
AuthorPercy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN0946497079
Read in The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 2

I've quite enjoyed some of Shelley's shorter poetry and I'd been itching to read this. It's a really lovely poem, with very strong themes of nature, mortality, and revolution and change. If you are new to poetry or unfamiliar with...
Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I
AuthorThomas Malory
ISBN1401307809
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
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...
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
AuthorS.A.J. Bradley
ISBN0460875078
Anglo–Saxon poetry is esteemed for its subtle artistry and for its wealth of insights into the artistic, social and spiritual preoccupations of the formative first centuries of English literature.

This anthology of prose translations covers most of the poetry surviving in the four major...
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
AuthorJustin Pollard
ISBN0719566665
In an era darkened by the terror of Viking invasions, England's first and greatest king was a beacon of light. "This is the story of England's birth. A great story, beautifully told." (Bernard Cornwell, author of The Pale Horseman)

Alfred was England's first kin, and his rule spanned troubled...
Roman de Brut
AuthorWace
ISBN1419107763
Wace (1115 – 1183) was an Anglo-Norman poet. The introduction to this work by Eugene Mason gives an excellent account of Wace and the background behind this historical work. Wace begins his history of the Britons as follows. “Constantine came to Totnes, and many a stout knight with him—there...
King Harald's Saga
AuthorSnorri Sturluson
ISBN0140441832
This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led to his death and marked the end of an era in which...
The History and Topography of Ireland
AuthorGerald of Wales
ISBN0140444238
Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman families involved in the invasion of Ireland, he first visited there in 1183 and later returned in the entourage of Henry II. The resulting Topographia Hiberniae is an extraordinary...
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...
1000 Poems from the Manyōshū
AuthorŌtomo no Yakamochi
ISBN0486439593
Dating from the 8th century and earlier, the Manyoshu is the oldest Japanese poetry anthology; it is also widely considered to be the best. The 1,000 poems (out of a total of more than 4,500) in this famous selection were chosen by a distinguished scholarly committee based on their poetic excellence,...
The Dream of the Rood
AuthorCynewulf
ISBN0859895033
The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius.

This edition presents a conservative text with variant reading described in the notes. In his introduction...
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 Secret History of the Mongols: The Origin of Chinghis Khan (Expanded Edition): An Adaptation of the Yuan Ch'ao Pi Shih, Based Primarily on the English Translation by Francis Woodman Cleaves
AuthorPaul Kahn
ISBN0887272991
This adaptation of what is recognized today as the oldest Mongolian text (written two decades after Chingis Khan`s death) tells the Mongols' own version of the origin of their nation, the life of Chingis Khan, and the creation of an empire that stretched across Eurasia in the 13th century. Adapted from...
Knight's Tale
AuthorGeoffrey Chaucer
ISBN1899644318
I was going to read the translated edition of this but my english teacher said the original wouldn't be too much trouble and gave a copy of the prologue. It was nicely written and all but it's really just a list of characters with their descriptions, so when I finished it I decided to move onto the first story,...
The Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes
AuthorPublius Papinius Statius
ISBN0801886368
A classical epic of fratricide and war, the Thebaid retells the legendary conflict between the sons of Oedipus — Polynices and Eteocles — for control of the city of Thebes. The Latin poet Statius reworks a familiar story from Greek myth, dramatized long before by Aeschylus in his tragedy Seven against...
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