The History of the English Language - Part I - Course Guidebook with 6 CDs (The Great Courses - Teaching That Engages the Mind)

by Seth Lerer

Course Guidebook with 6 CDs (Part I - 1 through 6). This course of 36 lectures introduces the student to the history of the English language, from its origins as a dialect of the Germanic-speaking peoples, through the literary and cultural documents of its 1500-year span, to the state of American speech of the present day. Part I focuses on the development of Old English, precursor of the modern tongue we speak today.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

Professor Seth Lerer (1956 -) is a contemporary Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, specialising in historical analyses of the English language, in addition to critical analyses of the works of several authors, including in particular Geoffrey Chaucer.

-wikipedia