Guide to Old English

BRUCE MITCHELL was University Lecturer in English and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.FRED C. ROBINSON is Associate Professor of English at Stanford University.

'Dr Mitchell's Guide to Old English is a grammar book with some unusual qualities and some extra features. … They author's Foreword points to the real distinction of the book – that it 'devotes more space than is usual to the simple explanation of difficult points and to way sof reducing rote learning and of solving problems which arise for the reader of Old English texts'. This is no empty claim. ... Dr Mitchell is at pains to clarify, to systematize, to be ready with answers to the questions which, as any teacher of Old English knows, constantly aristo but aren't usually answered in an elementary grammar.' (Australian Univeristy Modern Languages Association) 'Dr Mitchell is obviously a careful and thoughtful teacher and offers us the benefit of his experience in this book. It is excellently planned...' (Review of English Studies) 'I have enjoyed my refresher course, and I hope other students will find it no less stimulating.'(English Philological Studies)