Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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... Poet ) , in the Complaint of Deor , is not so happy as Widsith . He is no rover , but lives with his lord , and has from him lands and wealth . But his rival , Heorrenda , supplants him , and this song is written to console his heart ...
... Poet ) , in the Complaint of Deor , is not so happy as Widsith . He is no rover , but lives with his lord , and has from him lands and wealth . But his rival , Heorrenda , supplants him , and this song is written to console his heart ...
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... poet at some noble's court , and which treat of natural phenomena , of war and armour , of the feast and the hall of the folk , of daily life in the settlements , of hunting and cattle , of forest and fish and bird . The first five ...
... poet at some noble's court , and which treat of natural phenomena , of war and armour , of the feast and the hall of the folk , of daily life in the settlements , of hunting and cattle , of forest and fish and bird . The first five ...
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... poet comes to gentler matters the spirit of the poem is changed . The Christian sentiment for soft landscape , its love of animals , and its tender domestic feeling touch the verse , in a pathetic mingling , with grace and delicacy ...
... poet comes to gentler matters the spirit of the poem is changed . The Christian sentiment for soft landscape , its love of animals , and its tender domestic feeling touch the verse , in a pathetic mingling , with grace and delicacy ...
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... poet describes the overwhelm- ing . It is forcible - over forcible ; but young poetic life is in it . And the poem closes with the Song of victory and the plunder of the dead Egyptians . Judith , in the manuscript which contains Beowulf ...
... poet describes the overwhelm- ing . It is forcible - over forcible ; but young poetic life is in it . And the poem closes with the Song of victory and the plunder of the dead Egyptians . Judith , in the manuscript which contains Beowulf ...
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... poet seems to write like a young man . His metrical movement is steadier here than in the other poems . He uses almost invariably the short epic line into the usage of which English poetry had now drifted . Rhyme , also , and assonance ...
... poet seems to write like a young man . His metrical movement is steadier here than in the other poems . He uses almost invariably the short epic line into the usage of which English poetry had now drifted . Rhyme , also , and assonance ...
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