Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse
- 328 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Henry Sweet Books
Henry Sweet was an influential English philologist and phonetician who focused on Germanic languages, particularly Old English and Old Norse. His groundbreaking work explored broader issues of phonetics, grammar, and language pedagogy, with many of his ideas remaining vital in academic circles today. A pioneer in language teaching, Sweet emphasized spoken language and phonetics, producing seminal works that laid the foundation for modern phonetic studies and the scientific description of speech. His contributions, especially to Old English dialectology and the study of pronunciation, continue to inform linguistic scholarship.
Generations of students of English have benefited from the changes that Sweet wrought in the understanding of the historical and contemporary forms of the language.' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This clear, concise and authoritative dictionary is the ideal reference for the student of Old English literature and language. Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was educated at King's College School, London, the University of Heidelberg and Balliol College, Oxford. He was an active member of the Philological Society and served as its president from 1876 to 1878. He was a member of the Royal Danish Academy and a corresponding member the Munich and Royal Prussian Academies of Sciences. Despite his outstanding intellectual abilities and talent for teaching, it was only in 1901 that he was given a readership in Phonetics at Oxford University. The character of Professor Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion was partly based upon Sweet.