Mark Griffith is a Fellow and Tutor in English at New College, Oxford.

• PrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 The Manuscript2 Transcript and Editorial History3 Language4 Prosody5 Date6 Treatment of the Source7 Judith and Old English Poetic Tradition8 Judith and Christian Tradition9 Style and StructureThe Text,Editorial ProcedureJudith: Text with textual notesCommentaryBibliographyAppendicesI Alliteration and RhymeII Index and Tables to the ScansionIII Latin SourcesGlossary

This is a superb contribution to Old English scholarship, packed with useful and new information, attractively presented and priced. Judith, a lively narrative poem, has finally found an editor responsive to its charms, one apparently incapable of thoughtlessness, neglect, or unkindness. Much devotion has gone into the making of this edition, along with impeccable judgement. ... Griffith is probably unmatched in his sensitivity to and appreciation of the sounds, syntax, and style of Judith. And he makes at least as many original observations as there are lines in the poem... In this new edition, the poem—in all its comic inventiveness and flouting of convention—is more alive and appealing than at any time in the three-hundred years since it first appeared in public.

Mark Griffith is a Fellow and Tutor in English at New College, Oxford.

• PrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 The Manuscript2 Transcript and Editorial History3 Language4 Prosody5 Date6 Treatment of the Source7 Judith and Old English Poetic Tradition8 Judith and Christian Tradition9 Style and StructureThe Text,Editorial ProcedureJudith: Text with textual notesCommentaryBibliographyAppendicesI Alliteration and RhymeII Index and Tables to the ScansionIII Latin SourcesGlossary

This is a superb contribution to Old English scholarship, packed with useful and new information, attractively presented and priced. Judith, a lively narrative poem, has finally found an editor responsive to its charms, one apparently incapable of thoughtlessness, neglect, or unkindness. Much devotion has gone into the making of this edition, along with impeccable judgement. ... Griffith is probably unmatched in his sensitivity to and appreciation of the sounds, syntax, and style of Judith. And he makes at least as many original observations as there are lines in the poem... In this new edition, the poem—in all its comic inventiveness and flouting of convention—is more alive and appealing than at any time in the three-hundred years since it first appeared in public.

Mark Griffith is a Fellow and Tutor in English at New College, Oxford.

• PrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 The Manuscript2 Transcript and Editorial History3 Language4 Prosody5 Date6 Treatment of the Source7 Judith and Old English Poetic Tradition8 Judith and Christian Tradition9 Style and StructureThe Text,Editorial ProcedureJudith: Text with textual notesCommentaryBibliographyAppendicesI Alliteration and RhymeII Index and Tables to the ScansionIII Latin SourcesGlossary

This is a superb contribution to Old English scholarship, packed with useful and new information, attractively presented and priced. Judith, a lively narrative poem, has finally found an editor responsive to its charms, one apparently incapable of thoughtlessness, neglect, or unkindness. Much devotion has gone into the making of this edition, along with impeccable judgement. ... Griffith is probably unmatched in his sensitivity to and appreciation of the sounds, syntax, and style of Judith. And he makes at least as many original observations as there are lines in the poem... In this new edition, the poem—in all its comic inventiveness and flouting of convention—is more alive and appealing than at any time in the three-hundred years since it first appeared in public.