This popular reader--a standard since its first edition in 1876--helps students acquire a sound elementary knowledge Old English by studying of a rich variety of poetry and prose. Selections cover a wide range of dialects and genres, from an early Northumbrian form of Caedmon's Hymn and ninth-century Kentish charters to the complete texts of The Dream of the Rood and Wulfstan's Address to the English, with ample literary and historical notes.
Henry Sweet Knihy
Henry Sweet bol anglický filológ a fonetik, ktorý sa špecializoval na germánske jazyky, najmä starú angličtinu a starú nórčinu. Jeho práce o fonetike, gramatike a výučbe jazykov zásadne ovplyvnili odbor a mnohé z jeho myšlienok sú dodnes relevantné. Bol priekopníkom v oblasti jazykového vzdelávania, kládol dôraz na hovorený jazyk a fonetiku, čo sa prejavilo v jeho vplyvných publikáciách, ktoré sa stále používajú na univerzitách. Sweetov prínos k dialektológii starej angličtiny a jeho vedecký opis štandardnej londýnskej výslovnosti položili základy pre modernú fonetiku.
Generations of students of English have benefited from the changes that Sweet wrought in the understanding of the historical and contemporary forms of the language.' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This clear, concise and authoritative dictionary is the ideal reference for the student of Old English literature and language. Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was educated at King's College School, London, the University of Heidelberg and Balliol College, Oxford. He was an active member of the Philological Society and served as its president from 1876 to 1878. He was a member of the Royal Danish Academy and a corresponding member the Munich and Royal Prussian Academies of Sciences. Despite his outstanding intellectual abilities and talent for teaching, it was only in 1901 that he was given a readership in Phonetics at Oxford University. The character of Professor Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion was partly based upon Sweet.
Second Middle English Primer
Extracts from Chaucer