For those who would love to explore Old English poetry beyond Beowulf but don't know where to look, here are some suggestions:
Physical Books:
- The Complete Old English Poems, by Craig Williamson, March 3, 2017 - If you've just GOT to catch 'em all!
- Old English Poetry: An Anthology, by R. M. Liuzza, March 26, 2014 - A good, poetic translation of the most important Old English texts.
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry, by S. A. J. Bradley, February 15, 1995 - A well-regarded prose translation of the major Old English texts, by codex.
- The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, by Greg Delanty (Editor), Michael Matto (Editor), Seamus Heaney (Foreword), April 9, 2012 - Modern poets take on ancient poems
- An Anthology of Old English Poetry, by Charles William Kennedy, Dec 31, 1960 - much beloved by the previous generation of English students; out of print, but available used
Online Sources:
- The entire corpus of Anglo-Saxon poetry is online in the original language at https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/index.htm.
- Translations of nearly 80% of the corpus can be found at https://oldenglishpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/.
- The Exeter Book Anthology, Israel Gollancz, (Poems 1-8, parallel Anglo-Saxon / Modern English): https://archive.org/details/publicationsorig104earluoft/page/n5/mode/2up
- The Old English Reader is online in the original with side-by-side textual notes and glossary at www.oereader.ca
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