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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1958, c1956.
Wessex before the time of Alfred -- The world of Alfred's boyhood, 849-65 -- Alfred and his brother, King Ethelred, 865-71 -- King Alfred and the Great War against the Danes, 871-86 -- King Alfred and his rule in Wessex -- King Alfred and his scholars and teachers -- King Alfred and the Later War against the Danes, 892-96 -- King Alfred and his earlier translations -- King Alfred and his later translations -- King Alfred at home -- Brief list of books -- Maps. England during the supremacy of Offa of Mercia in 796 A.D. ; Alfred's wars against the Danes, 869-78 A.D. ; Division of English land by the Peace of 886 A.D. between King Alfred and the Danes ; Later wars of King Alfred against the Danes, 892-96 A.D.
Nursery rhymes -- The boys and the frogs -- The dog and his shadow -- The fox and the crow -- The boy and the nettle -- The ass in the lion's skin -- The frog who wished to be as big as an ox -- A thought ; The swing ; The sun's travels / The gnat and the bull -- The hare and the tortoise -- A riddle -- The fox and the stork -- The lion and the mouse -- The old man and his sons -- Little Red Riding Hood -- Singing / Tom Thumb -- The shepherd and the wolves -- The Rock-a-By Lady / The wind and the sun -- The wolf and the crane -- Lullaby / The little old woman and her pig -- Silver Locks and the three bears -- The cow ; Looking forward / The ladybird and the fly / The two travelers -- Rain / The two travelers and the oyster -- System / Hop-o'-my-thumb -- My bed is my boat / Robert Louis Stevenson -- At the seaside ; Foreign lands / The lark and the young ones -- Little blue pigeon / The dog in the manger -- The fox and the grapes -- The three little pigs -- Little birdie / The cat and the chestnuts -- The land of Counterpane / The cock and the horses -- The brown thrush / The hardy tin soldier / The bat and the two weasels -- Marching song / Jack and the beanstalk -- Bed in summer / The goose that laid the golden eggs -- Jack the giant-killer -- Block city / The mice and the cat -- From a railway carriage ; Fairy bread / The town mouse and the country mouse -- A riddle -- Old Gaelic lullaby -- Sleep, baby, sleep -- The pea blossom / Hansel and Grethel / The lion, the fox and the ass -- Cinderella -- Seein' things / Eugene Field -- A riddle -- Norse lullaby / The three tasks / Where go the boats? / The snow maiden -- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod / The twin brothers / Industry and Sloth -- Whole duty of children / The tree / Young night thought / The drummer / Stop, stop, pretty water / Beauty and the beast -- The horse and the stag -- The owl and the pussy cat / Time to rise / The enchanted stag / Keepsake mill ; Foreign children / The golden bird / Lady Button Eyes / The wonderful gifts -- The fox, the wolf, and the horse -- The flax / The duel / The bald knight -- Atalanta's race / Autumn fires / "Something" / The fairies / The brother and sister -- The reaper and the flowers / The sands of Dee / Mercy to animals / The ugly duckling / Baucis and Philemon -- The wind / Little brown hands / Whittington and his cat -- The wolf and the lamb -- The story of Joseph
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2006.
067402320X (hbk.)
Family tree -- Map -- Introduction -- The promised book and the pilgrim : Alfred's childhood -- Birds of prey : the Vikings -- The soldier King -- The King of Athelney : cakes, saints and disguises -- Defender and pardoner : Alfred's administration and its test in the last campaign -- The King, the thief, the code and the letter : Alfred and the law -- Necessary wisdom : Alfred as scholar -- The sick man's prayer : a personal Alfred -- The founding father -- Dying to be famous : Alfred's posthumous rise and fall -- Further reading -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Corinna, from Athens, to Tanagra ; The yacht ; Ianthe ; Her name ; The gifts return'd ; The maid's lament ; The dragon-fly ; To Miss Arundell ; Rose Aylmer ; On a child ; To his verse ; The kiss ; The wall-flower ; On the death of Southey ; On his own death ; His epitaph ; Finis / A wish / Plaint / To spring : on the banks of the Cam / The nun ; Jenny kiss'd me ; Abou Ben Adhem / Champagne rosée / Hermione ; For a fountain / Last lines / The right use of prayer / On his friend, Joseph Rodman Drake / Balaam ; November / Graves of infants ; Song ; Written in Northampton County asylum / Lines / The forest maid ; Thanatopsis / Song ; The phoenix ; Love's likeness ; The lyre ; On the death of a recluse ; Song / The sower's song / Song ; To a lofty beauty from her poor kinsman ; May, 1840 / Ode to the moon ; Fair Ines ; Time of roses ; The death-bed ; Ruth ; The bridge of sighs ; The song of the shirt / A Jacobite's epitaph / Elena's song ; Song ; Women singing / Conflict / Woodlands ; The oak-tree ; The old house ; The turnstile ; The wife a-lost ; Evening, and maidens ; The head-stone / Rest ; Chorus of the elements ; The vicar ; Mater desiderata / The mother ; Song / Eileen Aroon / Dark Rosaleen ; The fair hills of Eirk, O ; The Karamanian exile ; The three Khalandeers; Gone in the wind ; To Amine ; Advice against travel ; The world : a Ghazel ; The nameless one / Mariners' song ; Dirge ; Dream-pedlary ; Bridal song to Amala ; Wolfram's song / Absent yet present ; Nydia's song / The field-path / Wood-notes ; Fore-runners ; Days ; Give all to love ; Brahma / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The plough ; Solitude and the life / The lamp / The first fathers ; The song of the western men ; Death song ; King Arthur's waes-hael / Wellington / Lament / The bells of Shandon / The true martyr / Farewells from paradise ; Cowper's grave ; Praise of earth ; Confessions ; The mask ; Grief ; Mystery ; A musical instrument ; Sonnets from the Portuguese ; Inclusions ; My Kate ; The best ; The North and the South /
Corn riggs an' barley rigs ; To a mouse ; Green grown the rashes ; Holy Willie's prayer ; Willie brewed a peck o' maut ; Tam o' shanter ; Afton Water ; Ae fond kiss ; Ye flowery banks ; Scots, what hae ; For a' that and a' that ; A red, red rose ; Auld lang syne /
About a quarter to nine / After all / Again / Ah-leu-cha / Ain't we got fun? / Al di la / All about my girl / All about Ronnie / All alone / All at once you love her / All God's chillun got rhythm / All in love is fair / All through the night / Almost blue / Am I blue? / Anastasia / And I love her / And the angels sing / And when I die / Aqui, oh! / Artistry in rhythm / As time goes by / Baby, won't you please come home / Baker Street / Batman theme / Begin the beguine / Benny's bugle / Bess, you is my woman / Big spender / Black butterfly / Blow, Gabriel, blow / Blue again / Blue moon / Blue rondo a la Turk / Blues in H (B) / Blues in the night / Boogie down / The boulevard of broken dreams / Bourbon Street parade / The boy from New York City / Bridge over troubled water / Brotherhood of man / Brown skin gal in the calico gown / A bushel and a peck / But not for me / By Strauss / By the river Sainte Marie / Bye and bye / Cabaret / A certain smile / Chattanoogie shoe shine boy / Cheerful little earful / Chinatown, my Chinatown / Chlo-e / Chuckles / Clouds / The coffee song (They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil) / The constant rain (Chove chuva) / Count every star / Cute / Dance with a dolly (with a hole in her stockin') /
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2010]
9780801894626 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
Preface Introduction A American historian / Swiss-American naturalist / American author and educator / Russian Yiddish author and satirist / English science writer and novelist / Irish poet / Duke of Argyll (see George Douglas Campbell) -- English poet and critic / English prime minister / English journalist / B English political theorist / Scottish philosopher / American psychologist / English prime minister / American historian / American editor and satirist / American circus impresario / English naturalist / English geneticist / English suffragist and botanist / American clergyman / English art critic / American novelist / American anthropologist / French philosopher / English philosopher and historian / English social reformer / American poet / German statesman / American anthropologist / English naturalist and science writer / German nature writer / English economist / American philosopher / American clergyman and reformer / Austrian philosopher / English poet / French anatomist and anthropologist / English poet / American essayist and editor / French author and critic / American politician / American poet / English jurist and statesman / German materialist / English historian / English author and science popularizer / English novelist and politician / American botanist and horticulturalist / American naturalist / English historian / English novelist / English clergyman / C American social reformer / Scottish politician and author / Swiss botanist / English woman of letters / English author / English naturalist and physiologist / English author / Spanish politician and president / American novelist / American Unitarian minister / Russian author / English author / English prime minister / Austrian zoologist / French statesman / English mathematician and philosopher / English banker and author / Irish social reformer and animal-rights activist / German biologist / American biologist and eugenicist / American clergyman / American president / American paleontologist / English historian and prelate / Brazilian poet / D American geologist / American author and lawyer / Russian naturalist / Canadian geologist and paleobotanist / Dutch botanist / American philosopher / English novelist / American poet / English prime minister / German zoologist / American novelist and politician / Russian novelist / English author / Russian Jewish historian / Dutch anatomist and paleontologist / German physiologist, and Albert Wigand, German botanist / French philosopher of science / English novelist / French sociologist / E German zoologist / German-American physicist / English novelist / English poet / English sociologist / American philosopher / English critic and poet / German political theorist / English politician and historian / F French entomologist / English physicist / English prelate / Hungarian psychoanalyst / American social philosopher / English author and translator / American novelist / French novelist / American journalist / Italian novelist and senator / English naturalist / English novelist, critic, and editor / English novelist / American clergyman / French novelist / English historian / Austrian psychoanalyst / American poet / G English psychometrician and eugenicist / Indian statesman / American president / American author / American editor and author / African American leader / English novelist / English biologist and social scientist / German anatomist / Scottish geologist / Scottish geologist / French zoologist / French marine biologist / American prelate / French author / English poet and lyricist / American novelist and feminist / English novelist / English prime minister / American novelist / English poet / American paleontologist / Scottish politician and author / American botanist / English historian / American missionary and naturalist / Polish-Austrian sociologist / H Russian Jewish essayist / German zoologist / American mining engineer / English biologist / American psychologist / English novelist and poet / Irish botanist / American plant breeder /
Medieval English Monarch Mystery First Exhumation Alfred the Great's Early Years Pilgrimages to Rome Second Exhumation Retreat to Somerset Levels Battle of Edington Protestant Vandalism Resting Place Disturbance Anglo-Saxon Literacy Project Alfred Jewel Radiocarbon Dating Desecration of Alfred's Remains Anglo-Saxon Hero Radiocarbon Results New Archaeological Evidence Alfred the Great Summary Credits: The Search for Alfred the Great
Uncovering Anglo-Saxon History Medieval Pilgrimage Alfred's Childhood Experiences Viking Wars Reading Battles Viking Settlements Wetland Exile Medieval Destiny Myth Athelney Fort Battle of Edington Aller Peace Process Anglo-Saxon Burh System Lunden Restoration Anglo-Saxon Currency Anglo-Saxon Literacy Creating an Anglo-Saxon Culture Alfred's Reflections Credits: Alfred of Wessex: King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons
xxii, 277 p. :
ISBN/ISSN:
0859915158 (alk. paper) :
0859915158 (alk. paper) : $74.76
Celtic etymology for Old English Deor "Brave" / Ælfric's Letter and the Excerptione Ecgberhti / Old English and Gomorrah in prose works from Alfred's reign / Wæferth and King Alfred: the fate of the Old English dialogues / First venture into "Medieval geography": Lambarde's Map of the Saxon Heptarchy (1568) / Ece: "eternal" in Ækfruc / Anglo-Saxon chrinicle at Ramsey / Ækfruc's homily on the holy Innocents: the sources reviewed / Anglo-Saxon entries in the "liber Vitae" of Brescia / Analysis of a translator: the Old English Wonders of the East / Sign 7 in the Annal for 871 in the Parker Chronicle, MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 173 / ... sucyt ikun gens Francorum ... nunc gens Anglorum": Fulk's letter to Alfred revisited / Alfredian piety: the Book of Nunnaminster / Fela martyrs 'many martyrs": a different view of Orosius's city / Wifcyppe and the morality of the Cynewulf and Cyneheard episode in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle / Solar eclipse of Wednesday 20 October AD 878: ninth-century historical records and the findings of modern astronomy / On the laws of King Alfred: the end of the preface and the beginning of the laws / Alfred's Boethius and the four cardinal virtues / Lambarde problem: eightly years on / Tabula Gratulatoria.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Aethelstan's Lineage Elected Anglo-Saxon Ruler Kingston Coronation Viking-English Relations Athelstan's Court Uniting England Gaining Legitimacy Aethelstan's Government Political Participation English Parliamentary Origins Ancient English Community Practices Improving English Infrastructure Anglo-Saxon Coinage Intellectual Interests Anglo-Saxon Fratricide Invading Scotland Opposition to Aethelstan Anglo-Saxon Great War Battle of Brunanburh Aethelstan's Legacy Credits: Aethelstan, the First King of England: King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons
Funeral Oration -- On His Condemnation to Death -- On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia -- On the Crown -- The Second Oration Against Philip -- In Support of the Oppian Law -- To His Soldiers -- First Oration Against Catiline -- The Fourth Philippic -- To the Conspirators -- To His Troops -- On the Treatment of the Conspirators -- The Catilinarian Conspirators -- Oration on the Dead Body of Julius Caesar. -- A Second Crusade -- Sermon to the Birds -- Before the Diet of Worms -- On Suffering Persecution -- Before Invading Silesia, 1740 -- Before the Battle of Leuthen, 1757 -- Advocating the Execution of Louis XVI -- Agaist the Charge of Treason -- "To Dare again, Ever to Dare!" -- "Let France Be Free!" -- Defense Against the Charges -- The Festival of the Supreme Being -- At the Beginning of the Italian Campaign -- On Entering Milan -- On Beginning the Russian Campaign -- Farewell to the Old Guard -- Against Imperialism -- Voltaire -- To the Young Men of Italy -- To His Soldiers -- Rome and Italy -- America's Welcome -- To the Delegates from Alsace -- Appeal for Dreyfus -- Christian Democracy -- War and Armaments in Europe -- Germany and the War -- Address to the German People -- Last Speech -- The Spirit of France -- Coronation Day Sermon -- One Aim: Victory -- To Workingmen and Soldiers -- To the Red Army -- The Dictatorship of the Proletariat -- Napoleon -- Naval Disarmament. -- On the Dissolution of Parliament -- On a Moriton for His Removal -- God's Love to Fallen Man -- On the right of Taxing America -- Conciliation with America -- Indictment of Warren Hastings -- At the Trial of Warren Hastings -- On His Refusal to Negotiate with Bonaparte -- On Refusal to Negotiate with Bonaparte -- The Fall of Napoleon -- On the Reform Bill -- The Effects of Protection on Agriculture -- The "Trent" Affair -- Peace with Honor -- On Domestic and Foreign Affairs -- Anti-Semitism -- The British Empire -- Militant Suffragists -- England's Position -- An Appeal to the Nation -- The Fourth of July -- Peace -- Women in Politics -- On His Seventieth Birthday -- Justice for Ireland -- Protest Against Sentence as Traitor -- The Home Rule Bill -- The Irish Free State. -- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God -- The Boston Massacre -- "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!"-- American Independence -- On the Faults of the Constitution -- The States and the Federal Government -- Justice and the Federal Constitution -- The Federal Constitution -- Inaugural Address -- Farewell Address -- First Inaugural Address -- Alexander Hamilton -- Red Jacket -- Tecumseh -- Adams and Jefferson -- Reply to Hayne -- Second Inaugural Address -- The Murder of Lovejoy -- The Preservation of the Union -- Slavery -- On the Compromise of 1850 -- The Crime Against Kansas -- The Irrepressible Conflict -- On being Sentenced to Death -- On the Death of John Brown -- Reply to Lincoln -- On Withdrawal from the Union -- On His Nomination to the Senate -- Farewell Address at Springfield -- Address at Gettysburg -- Second Inaugural Address -- The System of Slavery -- On Woman's Right to Suffrage -- Blaine-The Plumed Knight -- Oration at His Brother's Grave -- On the Death of Garfield -- First Inaugural Address -- The Columbian Oration -- The American Standard -- The Cross of Gold -- The Republic That Never Retreats -- The Retention of the Philippines -- Address at Buffalo -- Manhood or Money -- The Strenuous Life -- Washington's Birthday -- Lincoln, Man and American -- Peace Without Victory -- Declaration of War -- The Fourteen Points -- The League of Nations -- The League of Nations -- On Receiving Sentence -- A Plea for the League of Nations -- "Live-I Am Coming!"
Patapan -- We three kings of Orient are / I saw three ships -- coventry carol -- It came upon the midnight clear / Good King Wenceslas -- Once in Royal David's city / Rocking -- first Nowell -- God rest you merry gentlemen -- Wither's rocking hymn / Silent night / Wassail song -- Dormi Jesus -- Boar's head carol -- Past three a clock -- Lullay my liking / Adam lay ybounden / Herrick's carol -- Angelus ad virginem -- holly and the ivy / O little one sweet / Song of the nuns of Chester -- Winter-rose -- In dulci jubilo /
