Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle and Early Modern English
This is a completely revised and updated edition of a highly successful textbook.\ It provides a practical and highly accessible introduction to the early stages of the English language: Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English. Designed specifically as a handbook for students beginning the study of early English language, whether for linguistic or literary purposes, it presumes little or no prior knowledge of the history of English.\ Features of this second edition include:\ \...
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Completely revised and updated, this new edition improves the highly successful Essentials of Early English that went before it. In Essentials of Early English Jeremy Smith presupposes almost no knowledge whatsoever and covers the vast subject in one neat volume. The book covers the three key stages of Early English: Old, Middle and Early Modern. Accessible and user-friendly, the new edition brings the story up to the present day with a new section entitled 'From Early Modern English to Late Modern English' and includes web links, facsimiles of texts, and a new further reading section. Grammatical aspects are fully detailed and explained, and example texts with accompanying notes make this book ideal for any student studying English language or literature.
Pt. IDescription11Introduction32Describing language173Old English454Middle English895Early modern English123Pt. IIIllustrative texts153Sect. AOld English texts1551The man who built his house on sand1562Abraham and Isaac1573From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle1584Daniel1595Caedmon's hymn1606From The dream of the rood1607From AElfric's life of King Oswald1638From Beowulf1659From Beowulf168Sect. BMiddle English texts1691From The general prologue to the canterbury tales1702From The pardoner's tale1723From The parson's tale1764From The Peterborough Chronicle1785From Sir Orfeo1806From Sir Gawain and the green knight1827From John Lydgate, A balade in commendation of our lady1848From The Guildhall letter-book (1418)1859From William Caxton's preface to his edition of The Morte Darthure (1485)18610From William Caxton's preface to the Eneydos (1490)18711From Sir Thomas Malory, The Morte Darthur18812A letter from Margaret Paston189Sect. CEarly modern English texts1931From Loues labour's lost1952From As you like it1973From The tragedie of King Lear1984From The tragedie of Julius Caesar2005From The tragedie of Hamlet2026From The tragedie of Richard the Third2037From The tragedie of Macbeth2058From the authorised version of the Bible (1611)2069From John Milton's Areopagitica (1644)20810From John Dryden, All for love or, the world well lost (1677/1678)20911From E.K.'s preface to Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579)21112From A letter of Syr J. Cheke (1557)21213From Richard Mulcaster's The first parte of the elementarie (1582)21314From George Puttenham, 'of language', in The arte of English poesie (1589)21415From The letters of Lady Brilliana Harley (1642)21516From The tryall of Ralph Hall and Mary his wife (1665)216Pt. IIIBibliography, glossary and thematic index219
