The Old English lyric (such a poem as The Scald’s Lament, or The Seafarer) is the corner stone ; Tennyson and Browning, Carlyle and Ruskin, Hawthorne and Longfellow, Emerson and Lowell, are the ...

Most Old English poetry, which is where kennings are found, is nothing like the Medieval Times version of the Middle Ages, with knights and ladies and jousting. Instead, ...

Maria Dahvana Headley’s revisionist translation infuses the Old English poem with feminism and social-media slang, Ruth Franklin writes.

Manish Sharma, a Montreal-based specialist in Old English literature, responds to the poem's plea for closer social contact, from a "wanderer" figure who has spent too long isolated from friends.

There are four original manuscripts containing poetry in Old English—the now-defunct language of the medieval Anglo-Saxons—that have survived to the present day. No more, no less. They are ...

Old English poetry and language studies encompass a rich tapestry of literary, linguistic, and cultural analyses that illuminate the origins, composition techniques, ...

Thus begins the Old English epic Beowulf, a poem which has attracted a huge amount of attention since the Victorian era, being translated by figures like William Morris and Seamus Heaney, ...

That’s in contrast to another Old English epic called Genesis, which was also believed to be by more than one author. Analysis of that poem shows noticeable differences between its various parts.