Full Description
Commonly referred to as The Exeter Book, this important anthology is the earliest and largest surviving book of vernacular poetry from Anglo-Saxon England. This revised edition of the two-volume set first published in 1994 includes many newly-discovered alterations to the poetic texts in addition to the four hundred new readings listed in the first edition. The Bibliography has also been updated and reorganised and the Commentary includes discussion of critical works which have appeared since 1994. The book is published in a two-volume set. Volume One contains the Introduction and Texts. Volume Two contains the Commentary, Bibliography, Index to Bibliography.
Contents
VOLUME ONE
Foreword to the First Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
TEXTS
The Advent Lyrics
The Ascension
Christ in Judgement
The Life of Saint Guthlac (A)
The Life of Saint Guthlac (B)
The Canticles of the Three Youths
The Phoenix
The Passion of Saint Juliana
The Wanderer
God's Gifts to Humankind
Precepts
The Seafarer
Vainglory
Widsith
The Fates of Mortals
Maxims I (A)
Maxims I (B)
Maxims I (C)
The Order of the World
The Riming Poem
The Panther
The Whale
The Partridge
Homiletic Fragment III
Soul and Body II
Deor
Wulf and Eadwacer
Riddles 1-59
The Wife's Lament
Judgement Day I
Contrition (A) and (B)
The Descent into Hell
Almsgiving
Pharaoh
The Lord's Prayer I
Homiletic Fragment II
Riddle 30b
Riddle 60
The Husband's Message
The Ruin
Riddles 61-94
VOLUME TWO
Introductory Remarks to the Commentry
Commentary
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Primary Sources and Facsimiles
Critical Literature
Reference Works Consulted
Index to Bibliography of Critical Literature
