The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King Aelfred

xiv, 502 pp. Four pages of publisher ads follow text. CONTENTS: Widsith, Deor, and the Scop; Beowulf--Introduction; Beowulf--The Poem; The Episodes of "Beowulf" and the "Fight at Finnsburg"; The Mythical Elements in "Beowulf"; Waldhere; The Conquest and Literature; Armour and War in Poetry; The Settlement in Poetry; The Sea; Christianity and Literature; Monasticism and Literature; The Rise of Literature; Literature in Northumbria; Caedmon; Genesis A; Genesis B; Exodus; The "Daniel" and "Christ and Satan"; "Judith" and Other Caedmonian Poems; Northumbrian Literature Other Than English; "The Discourse of the Soul to the Body" and "The Elegiac Poems"; Cynewulf; The Signed Poems of Cynewulf; Unsigned Poems Either by Cynewulf or by Men of His School; The School of York; Notes; Index.