The selection of the poems is based on Hugh Thomas Keenan's list in The Apocalyptic Vision in Old English Poetry. Edward L. Risden in Beasts of Time principally agrees with this selection. The homilies are included according the information given about them in Robert DiNapoli's Index of Theme and Image to the Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church. The homilies of Ælfric's First Series are numbered according to Benjamin Thorpe in The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church. The First Part..., those of the Second Series according to Malcom Godden in Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: The Second Series. The numbering of John Pope in Homilies of Ælfric: A Supplementary Collection is kept. The Blickling Homilies are numbered according to R. Morris in The Blickling Homilies. The Vercelli Homilies are numbered according to Donald G. Scragg in The Vercelli Homilies. Dorothy Bethurum's numbering vor The Homilies of Wulfstan is kept. The Lives of Saints are numbered according to Walter W. Skeat in Ælfric's Lives of Saints