The Earliest English Poetry : A Critical Survey of the Poetry Written before the Norman Conquest, with Illustrative Translations (Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-saxon World)

The Earliest English Poetry (1971) offers a critical survey of Old English poetry, that is, of the vernacular verse composed in England from the seventh century to the Norman Conquest. It is a studied reappraisal of Old English verse by the light of modern critical scholarship.