Poetry has and always will be a time eternal literary form, long before anyone popularised it or glammed it up.

This collection gathers Old English verse — elegies, riddles, heroic fragments, devotional pieces — translated into modern English but retaining something of the original austerity. Sea, stone, lord, loss. The poems sit close to oral tradition, you're meant to hear the lilt and tambre. The Wanderer, The Seafarer, battle poetry, anonymous voices speaking out of exile, faith, frost and fatalism. 

For readers interested in literary origins, Anglo-Saxon poetics, early medieval Europe, or simply the strange clarity of very old speech surviving into the present.

A 1966 Penguin Classics edition It's aged as expected, pages toned, structurally sound. A reading copy with atmosphere.