A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972

Using the collections of Eston Everett Ericson. Since writings on Old English literature are the subject of our bibliography, we have not canvassed studies of Anglo-Saxon social, political, and economic history, art history, archaeology, and linguistic questions except where such studies deal specifically with a literary aspect of a literary work in Old English. Similarly, we do not include studies of Anglo-Latin literature unless these deal directly and substantially with one or more works in the vernacular. By restricting our coverage to Old English literature we have prepared a bibliography which complements rather than duplicates the bibliographies of A. G. Kennedy, Wilfrid Bonser, W. F. Bolton, and others. Within the area we have chosen, moreover, we have tried to be exhaustive, even to the extent of including items which are superficial, ephemeral, or obsolete. For these too have their place in a bibliography which is intended to serve both the student of Old English literature and the historian of the study of Old English literature.