The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records (ASPR) is a six-volume edition intended at the time of its publication to encompass all known Old English poetry.
Despite many subsequent editions of individual poems or collections, it has remained the standard reference work for scholarship in this field.
The edition was conceived by George Philip Krapp (1872–1934), who edited volumes 1, 2, and 5 while Professor of English at Columbia University, with the assistance of his student and colleague Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie.
[1] According to Henry Wiggins, the long gap before the publication of Volume 4, which contains the poems Beowulf and Judith, was partly due to Elliott's feeling that there was no urgency about completing the Beowulf volume, because there were so many competent editions.
As six individual works, the ASPR comprises: As a single work, it is thought of as: The series was printed in the UK by Routledge and Kegan Paul, but the UK year of publication is not always clear, leading to some variation in citations.