Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-360) and index
The Anglo-Latin background -- The Alfredian translations and related ninth-century texts -- Ælfric, Wulfstan, and other late prose -- Legal and scientific prose -- Some remarks on the nature and quality of Old English poetry -- Secular heroic poetry -- The Christian saint as hero -- Old Testament narrative poetry -- Miscellaneous religious and secular poetry -- Lore and wisdom -- Elegiac poetry