{"product_id":"the-earliest-english-poems-compiled-by-penguin","title":"'The Earliest English Poems' compiled by Penguin","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"581\" data-start=\"516\"\u003ePoetry has and always will be a time eternal literary form, long before anyone popularised it or glammed it up.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"878\" data-start=\"583\"\u003eThis collection gathers Old English verse — elegies, riddles, heroic fragments, devotional pieces — translated into modern English but retaining something of the original austerity. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSea, stone, lord, loss. The poems sit close to oral tradition, you're meant to hear the lilt and tambre. \u003cem data-end=\"779\" data-start=\"765\"\u003eThe Wanderer\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-end=\"795\" data-start=\"781\"\u003eThe Seafarer\u003c\/em\u003e, battle poetry, anonymous voices speaking out of exile, faith, frost and fatalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1213\" data-start=\"1049\"\u003eFor readers interested in literary origins, Anglo-Saxon poetics, early medieval Europe, or simply the strange clarity of very old speech surviving into the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1331\" data-start=\"1215\"\u003eA 1966 Penguin Classics edition It's aged as expected, pages toned, structurally sound. A reading copy with atmosphere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44158658510931,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-02-28T153925.507.png?v=1772253583","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-earliest-english-poems-compiled-by-penguin","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}