A CELEBRATION of old English is to be held with readings of the old tongue at a County Durham church. Jack Drum Arts are to hold an evening of poetry and readings taken from old English at Escomb ...

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: the ...

George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.

Recently, I read ``Beowulf,” the oldest epic in English literature and the greatest extant poem in Old English. As is widely known, the poem is about the heroic deeds of Beowulf, his victories over ...

While Nobel Prize winner Heaney's translation was sprinkled with numerous Hiberno-English terms throughout its lines (such as "bawn" and "bothie"), it may be said that the alliterative verse of the ...

That man made me live among these roots under this oak in this earth-cave. Old is this earth-hall, and I am all aching. Here are dim-lit dens, with dunes heaped up, bitter boroughs beset with briars, ...