THE ANGLO-SAXON POETRY; STOPFORD A. BROOKE'S LEARNED HISTORY OF IT. THE HISTORY OF EARLY ENGLISH LITER ATURE. By Stopford A. Brooke. New-York: Macmillan & Co.

Michael Alexander, who has died aged 82, was a translator, poet, academic and broadcaster whose scholarship was both deep and varied; his interests ranged from Old English poetry to the modernism ...

Most of the corpus of surviving Anglo-Saxon poetry—though it has been translated before—has had no recent, high-profile rendering until this capacious book.

While still a student at Oxford University, Alexander started translating Anglo-Saxon poetry into modern English verse, inspired by Ezra Pound’s translation of The Seafarer. In 1966 Penguin published ...

THE Anglo-Saxon tradition has “impregnated the political institutions of the Anglo-Saxon world on both sides of the Atlantic and has provided patterns to all Europe and to the lands that look to ...

A university has removed the term Anglo-Saxon from module titles in a bid to 'decolonise the curriculum.' The University of Nottingham is removing the expression from a number of courses ...

What was Anglo-Saxon art and culture like? Learn about Anglo-Saxon craft, stories, games and sport in this BBC Bitesize KS2 History guide.