A Reading of Beowulf, Revised Edition
Prof. Edward B. Irving, Jr's great scholarly interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, completely reset and carefully revised by Paul Thomas, with a new preface by Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe and an appendix by Don Chapman on later scholarship.
A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English
Written by Professor Peter G. Beidler, Emeritus Distinguished Professor at Lehigh University, this user-friendly book will soon make better Middle English readers aloud of Chaucer's poetry.
Beowulf: A Dramatic Reading in the Original Language
This is a complete dramatic recording by a group of readers from various nations (Canada, US, and Australia) of the entire text on the Old English epic on three CDs.
Heroic Women in Old and Middle English
Ros Allen's excellent readings in Old and Middle English of portions of several texts about heroic women.
Kudrun
Performed and recorded at the Kulturforum in Vienna on 9 November 2005 by Eberhard Kummer, this CD features the epic story of the heroic woman, Kudrun.
La3amon's Brut: The Full Reading Text
La3amon the clerk's beautiful legendary history of Britain in early 13th century Middle English verse is both alliterative and often rhyming. Rosamund Allen has prepared in her usual thorough way to deliver the poetry of the text's 16,095 lines for us.
Old English Elegies and Riddles
Ros Allen's collection of some of the elegies and riddles so typical of the surviving Old English poetic corpus from the Exeter Book, especially, exemplifies how a good reader should read Old English poetry.
Ted Irving Reads Old English
This CD combines former audiocassettes Selected Readings in Old English: The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, Deor, and The Seafarer and Favorite Passages from Beowulf.
The Pardoner’s Tale
The Pardoner's moving exemplum or sermon story to illustrate that the root of all evil is avarice. The irony is that the Pardoner himself is avaricious, as his long prologue reveals, though he hopes to save other from his own deadly sin.
The Poetics of Alliteration
Recording of all the alliterative poetic passages Alan Gaylord discussed in his expansion of a plenary address given at a SEMA annual conference in 1998. Range from Old English to Modern English examples.
The Poetics of Alliteration
The monograph is an expansion of a plenary address that Alan T. Gaylord read at a SEMA annual conference in 1998. The book covers alliterative poetry from the Old English poetic canon right down to modern examples.