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 Livres
Henry Sweet fut un influent philologue et phonéticien anglais, spécialisé dans les langues germaniques, notamment l'anglais ancien et le vieux norrois. Ses travaux novateurs ont exploré des questions plus larges de phonétique, de grammaire et de pédagogie des langues, et nombre de ses idées restent essentielles dans les cercles universitaires actuels. Pionnier dans l'enseignement des langues, Sweet a mis l'accent sur la langue parlée et la phonétique, produisant des œuvres fondamentales qui ont jeté les bases des études phonétiques modernes et de la description scientifique de la parole. Ses contributions, en particulier à la dialectologie de l'anglais ancien et à l'étude de la prononciation, continuent d'enrichir la recherche linguistique.
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