<p>The first and one of the finest Latin poets of Anglo-Saxon England, the seventh-century bishop Saint Aldhelm can justly be called “Britain’s first man of letters.” Among his many influential poetic texts were the hundred riddles that made up his<em>Aenigmata</em>. In <em>Saint Aldhelm’s Riddles</em>, A.M. Juster offers the first verse translation of this text in almost a century, capturing the wit, warmth, and wonder of the first English riddle collection.</p><p>One of today’s finest formalist poets, A.M. Juster brings the same exquisite care to this volume as to his translations of Horace (“The best edition available of the<em>Satires</em> in English” –<em>Choice</em>), Tibullus (“An excellent new translation” –<em>The Guardian</em>), and Petrarch. Juster’s translation is complemented by a newly edited version of the Latin text and by the first scholarly commentary on the<em>Aenigmata</em>, the result of exhaustive interdisciplinary research into the text’s historical, literary, and philological context.<em>Saint Aldhelm’s Riddles</em> will be essential for scholars and a treasure for lovers of Tolkien,<em>Beowulf</em>, and Harry Potter.</p>