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 byl anglický filolog a fonetik, který se specializoval na germánské jazyky, zejména starou angličtinu a starou norštinu. Jeho práce o fonetice, gramatice a výuce jazyků zásadně ovlivnily obor a mnohé z jeho myšlenek jsou dodnes relevantní. Byl průkopníkem v oblasti jazykového vzdělávání, kladl důraz na mluvený jazyk a fonetiku, což se projevilo v jeho vlivných publikacích, které se stále používají na univerzitách. Sweetův přínos k dialektologii staré angličtiny a jeho vědecký popis standardní londýnské výslovnosti položily základy pro moderní 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