Product Description: Richard J. Kelly's The Anglo-Saxon World is an exploration of the language, writings and culture found in the Anglo-Saxon period (c. 500 – 1100) and an examination of the relationships that exist between all three.Placing the age in sharp historical context, including chapters on the Roman Britain and Norman periods that preceded and succeeded it, The Anglo-Saxon World provides an unintimidating introduction for students to the fundamentals of Anglo-Saxon language, history, poetry, prose and artistic production...read more

'The Blickling Homilies' are a collection of Anglo Saxon documents of quite exceptional scholarly importance. This book presents a compilation of a detailed concordance to the Homilies, which does not only offer a key to understanding the originals but also offers a view of the Old English of the time, in all its variations and complexities.

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Product Description: The Blickling Homilies date from the end of the tenth century and form one of the earliest extant collections of English vernacular homiletic writings. The homiletic texts survive in a composite codex consisting of Municipal Entries for the Council of Lincoln (14th - 17th century), a Calendar (mid 15th century), Gospel Oaths (early 14th century), and the eighteen homiletic texts that are based on the yearly liturgical cycle...read more

Product Description: This catalogue of poet John Berryman's (1914-1972) personal library provides unique insight into the life and work, the range of thought and emotion, and the special interests and enthusiasms of the man the British critic Donald Davie described as «one of the most gifted and intelligent Americans of his time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Illuminating and provocative reflections on poet John Berryman's life and career

Product Description: Scarecrow Author Bibliographies, No. 8. A compilation of the works by and about author John Berryman 1914-1972 . Table of contents. Foreword by William Meredith, introduction by Michael Berryhill. Chronology of Berryman's life. Indices of poems and first lines, prose titles, authors, and periodicals/newspaper...read more