The Earliest English Poetry (1971) offers a critical survey of Old English poetry, that is, of the vernacular verse composed in England from the seventh century to the Norman Conquest. It is a studied reappraisal of Old English verse by the light of modern critical scholarship.
1. Germanic Tradition 2. Continental Backgrounds 3. Beowulf 4. The Elegies 5. The Riddles and Gnomic Verse 6. The Caedmonian Poems 7. The Signed Poems of Cynewulf 8. Poetry in the Cynewulfian Manner 9. The Religious Heroic Tale 10. Christian Allegory 11. Minor Religious Poems 12. The Historic Battle Poems
