Commonly referred to as The Exeter Book, this important anthology is the earliest and largest surviving book of vernacular poetry from Anglo-Saxon England.

This revised edition of the two-volume set first published in 1994 includes many newly-discovered alterations to the poetic texts in addition to the four hundred new readings listed in the first edition. The Bibliography has also been updated and reorganised and the Commentary includes discussion of critical works which have appeared since 1994. The book is published in a two-volume set. Volume One contains the Introduction and Texts. Volume Two contains the Commentary, Bibliography, Index to Bibliography.

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Bernard J. Muir trained at The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto and The University of Toronto. He has taught at the University of Melbourne since 1982 where he is a Reader in Medieval Language and Literature in the English Department. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

"... a valuable updating of its forebears. Bernard Muir's painstaking examination of both the manuscript and the enormous amount of scholarship on it has resulted in a wealth of new information alongside the riches of the old. This is a fine and full edition."

--Speculum