The Atlantic

Nature in Old English Poetry

IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...
Western Michigan University

Spotlight on The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry Before Bede

The earliest vernacular literatures of medieval Western Europe were produced in Britain and Ireland in Old English, Gaelic, and Brittonic languages. Our Anglophone world privileges Old English ...
The Atlantic

Ward's English Poets

AN excursion through eight or ten centuries of verse is an undertaking like the circumnavigation of the globe; the space to be traversed is so great that it takes a life-time to make the way familiar.
The New York Times

An Old English Poet.; THE POETRY OF GEORGE WITHER. Edited by Frank Sedgwick. 2 vols. Duo- decimo. New York: Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons.

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The Conversation

Wulf and Eadwacer: why I think I’ve solved the mystery of this Old English poem

Odoacer (left) and Theoderic (right) in a woodcut from the Hartmann Schedel (1493). INTERFOTO / Alamy Stock Photo Wulf and Eadwacer occupies just a few lines in the Exeter Book, an anthology of mostly ...