Hwæt. That word, barking through the clatter of the mead hall, typically opened an Old English poem in the Dark Ages, and roughly translates to “What” or “Listen now.” Old English is largely Germanic, ...

According to one scholar, it has been called the “greatest Christian poem written in English.” That’s a debatable call but a position that one would well argue. It is certainly one of the oldest poems ...

Hefty and easy to like, fit at once for the classroom and the kitchen table, this anthology is a rare beast, a commercial opportunity that also fulfills a real literary need. Most of the corpus of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Alexander on Castle Sands, St Andrews, with his younger daughter, Flora, 1982 - Lucy Alexander Michael Alexander, who has ...