King Alfred

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Excerpt from King Alfred: As Educator of His People and Man of LettersThe little treatise on King Alfred which follows this Preface is taken from a book of mine on Early English literature, and is one of its chapters. It is chie¿y concerned with the king's work as an educator of his people, and as a man of letters, but it also dwells brie¿y on him as the ruler, the lawgiver, the warrior, and the statesman. No doubt, Alfred's lofty character is seen most clearly in the work he did both in war and peace, but there is an inner life of thought and feeling in public men of which the world sees little, and this, which in Alfred was sorrowful, sensitive, humble-minded, and profoundly religious, appears in the additions he inserted into the translations hemade of Latin books for the instruction of his clergy, his nobles, his people, and for his own private pleasure. The style too in which he wrote - childlike, at times, in its simplicity and sincerity, and marked by an individual naivete - is also a revelation of the way in which his mind and spirit worked together.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.