The texts in this reader include prose, metrical prose, and poetry, and represent a variety of genres (saints’ lives and metrical charms as well as heroic ver

This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with

In this sequel to the best-selling The American Reader, mother-and-son team Diane and Michael Ravitch have gathered together the best and most memorable poems,