Literature. Ogden Nash’s poetry is sure ... Puck meant a mischievous and evil sprite in Old English (or Anglo-Saxon which is the earliest recorded form of the English language).

illiterate man named Caedmon who turns Bible stories into Anglo-Saxon poetry which he performs with the harp. “At that time I did not sense any obstacles to making it work — the whole thing ...

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. Most of the short poems and ...

The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...

Uniquely, in Europe, the vernacular was widely used in administration and literature, and shreds of wonderful Anglo-Saxon literature have come down to us, despite the destruction of so much by the ...