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Bright's Old English Grammar & Reader (Old English) Hardcover – June 1, 1972

by F. J. Cassidy (Author), R. Ringler (Author)

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494 pages
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English, Old English
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Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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June 1, 1972
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6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches
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0030847133
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978-0030847134
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Publisher : Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 3rd edition (June 1, 1972)
Language : English, Old English
Hardcover : 494 pages
ISBN-10 : 0030847133
ISBN-13 : 978-0030847134
Item Weight : 1.77 pounds
Dimensions : 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches

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A. Blue

Very good set of text and descriptions as a resource

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2018

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Purchased for a class. Very good set of text and descriptions as a resource. The included OE to E dictionary was helpful most of the time, however knowledge of the language is essential to the use of the glossary as the author was a stickler for writing down the pieces as they were written even if there was a spelling error within the piece.

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Scott W.

A fully academic approach to Old English and a must have.

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2010

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As far as I know, this is the last academically oriented OE textbook. All the new ones I have seen are what I would call "performance" oriented. That is, giving you the bare bones of pronunciation and grammar and getting you into reading and translating major OE texts as soon as possible. Bright's approach requires more work by starting the student with the building blocks of language and how it develops over time, but read with concentration and intellectual curiosity, it will be much more edifying than the "crash-course" grammar/readers.

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Bright's Old English Grammar

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2018

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I don't know any test that compares to this. Good even for raw beginners. It's a beautiful language. I was lucky to find this.

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August2cool

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2016

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Great for those who would like to study Old English, very informative for anyone who is just curious!

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A solid foundation

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2005

While I first learned Old English studying Robert Diamond's short 'Old English: Grammar and Reader', I would have to say that my real comfort with the language arrived when I went beyond Diamond's text into Bright's Old English Grammar and Reader. The copy I have is the second corrected printing of the third edition, edited by F. G. Cassidy and Richard N. Ringler.

The grammar in Bright's is rather extensive, with good coverage of speech sounds, including specialised vowel constructions, phonological changes, and spelling issues. The grammar covers all of the traditional topics -- noun declensions of several types, verbs divided by classes (there are in Bright's grammar seven classes of strong verbs and three classes of weak verbs, not including anomalous and preterit-present verbs), adjectives and adverbs, pronouns, numerals, and syntax issues. At various points in the grammatical development, Bright's inserts discussion of phonological changes and sound changes.

The reader includes a few pieces from the translation of Bede (not the best for pure Old English work, but still a good piece as a number of OE documents are in fact translations of works from other languages, including Latin). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Aelfric, and original Old English poetry also figure prominently. Major poems such as The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Dream of the Rood, and various riddles and maxims are included here. While the grammar section is 100 pages long, the reader is 250 pages long, so language work with original texts is emphasised heavily here. The readings are heavily annotated with notes to assist reading and translation.

The glossary is also very extensive, being more than 100 pages long in Bright's. Cross-referenced extensively with grammar, the words are located by text and line number for easy facilitation of locating the words in context.

This is a great one-volume text with which to learn Old English, both in poetry and prose. It does not include Beowulf, as the assumption on the part of this text is that it will be used as the prelude to a course in reading Beowulf. This is very good text; there are more recent readers and grammars, but this remains one of the better ones available.

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Barnard E. Turner

I like having it around

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2014

The grammar is clear but not overly heavy for a beginning course. The selections are broad, but there are broader ones. So if we compare "Bright's" to say Richard Marsden's "Cambridge Old English Reader", Bright would win on one count and lose on another. Yet the main point is already implicit in several comments already here: some of us were first exposed to OE through Bright (in my case 30 years ago in a class with Stanley Greenfield). I like having it around, if I didn't have it I'd buy it for $30 or so, but I'd supplement it with an investment in the Mitchell/Robinson "Guide". That the text doesn't seem to have been revised since Cassidy and Ringler around 40 years ago says something, as does the silence (or did I miss it?) about the exclusion of even a short passage from "Beowulf." Its assumptions have now been bypassed, and there are easier ways of getting up to speed in the language.

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