George Philip Krapp: 2 books

This 1915 volume traces the evolution of literary English into "a highly developed and efficient means of expression" from the early fourteenth century and the time of Wiclif until the early seventeenth century and the time of Bacon. 

This book is the first volume in a collective edition, the plan of which includes all the surviving records of Anglo-Saxon poetry. The main body of Anglo-Saxon poetry as it has come down to us is contained in four important miscellany manuscripts, the Junius Manuscript, the Vercelli Book, the Exeter...