An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse: With Grammatical Introduction, Notes, and Glossary (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Sweet, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133390875X ISBN 13: 9781333908751

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2024

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Excerpt from An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse: With Grammatical Introduction, Notes, and Glossary

This book is intended to provide the student with a series of texts in the classical west-saxon dialect of Old English, with such helps in the way of Grammar, Glossary, and Notes, as shall enable him to acquire a sound elementary knowledge of the language, without, at the same time, neglecting the literature. Care has been taken to represent every branch of literature as far as possible. In the prose pieces preference has always been given to original over translated works, and in the poetry every branch will be found fully represented, those pieces being selected whose texts are most certain and require the least conjectural emendation.

In a work of limited extent like the present it is necessary to exercise definite principles of selection both as regards the texts themselves and their illustration and elucidation. Hence the exclusion of all dialectal specimens, both as requiring a disproportionate amount of comment, and as tending to confuse the student's ideas. Hence also the absence of antiquarian and historical elucidation. There can be no question that the first object of all who occupy themselves with Old English literature, whether with a view to the literature itself, to historical investigations, or to a better understanding of the development of the English language generally, must be to acquire a sound elementary knowledge of the language itself. Everything else will then follow naturally.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 133390875X
• ISBN 13: 9781333908751
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 410