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Old English Shorter Poems, Volume I

Religious and Didactic

Edited and translated by Christopher A. Jones

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ISBN 9780674057890

Publication: May 2012

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    • Introduction
    • Poetic Allegories of Nature
      • The Panther
      • The Whale
      • The Partridge
      • The Phoenix
    • Poems from Worship and Prayer
      • The Lord’s Prayer (I)
      • The Lord’s Prayer (II)
      • The Lord’s Prayer (III)
      • The Apostles’ Creed
      • The Gloria patri (I)
      • The Gloria patri (II)
      • The Kentish Hymn (Gloria in excelsis deo)
      • Cædmon’s Hymn
      • Godric’s Hymn
      • A Prayer
      • Resignation (A)
    • Poems on Christian Living
      • Almsgiving
      • Homiletic Fragment (I)
      • Homiletic Fragment (II)
      • Aldhelm (A Verse Preface to His Treatise De virginitate)
      • Thureth (Commemorative Verses in a Bishop’s Book)
      • The Rewards of Piety
      • Instructions for Christians
      • Seasons for Fasting
      • The Menologium
    • Poems on the Last Things
      • Soul and Body
      • The Soul’s Address to the Body (from the Worcester Fragments)
      • The Grave
      • Judgment Day (I)
      • Judgment Day (II)
    • Epilogue: A Lament for the English Church (from the Worcester Fragments)
    • Appendix A: A Late Old English Sermon with Embedded Verse (The Judgment of the Damned)
    • Appendix B: Bilingual Materials from the Divine Office (from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 121)
    • Note on the Texts
    • Abbreviations
    • Notes to the Texts
    • Notes to the Translations
    • Bibliography
    • Index