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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... POETRY CÆDMON AND THE CHRISTIAN POETRY ENGLISH PROSE WRITERS THOMAS USK SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE CYNEWULF JOHN OF TREVISA LATIN WRITERS BEFORE LFRED ... JOHN WYCLIF ... BÆDA THE BIBLE ELFRED ... NICHOLAS HEREFORD POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE ...
... POETRY CÆDMON AND THE CHRISTIAN POETRY ENGLISH PROSE WRITERS THOMAS USK SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE CYNEWULF JOHN OF TREVISA LATIN WRITERS BEFORE LFRED ... JOHN WYCLIF ... BÆDA THE BIBLE ELFRED ... NICHOLAS HEREFORD POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE ...
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... poetry and prose of England . That influence was sometimes great , as at the beginning of our literature . Sometimes it was but little , but it always inspired when it came . After King Alfred's days , and for a very long time , it ...
... poetry and prose of England . That influence was sometimes great , as at the beginning of our literature . Sometimes it was but little , but it always inspired when it came . After King Alfred's days , and for a very long time , it ...
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... poetry , imitative of the old poetry of the north , continued under the Norman - Welsh rule till the days of Henry the Second , when the Black Book of Carmarthen was made up of some of the ancient poetry . the following centuries the ...
... poetry , imitative of the old poetry of the north , continued under the Norman - Welsh rule till the days of Henry the Second , when the Black Book of Carmarthen was made up of some of the ancient poetry . the following centuries the ...
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... poetry . The two fragments of the poem of Waldhere , found by Werlauff at Copenhagen , are made from the original German seventh - century form of the poem . The Christian and chivalric She en- elements of the later forms are entirely ...
... poetry . The two fragments of the poem of Waldhere , found by Werlauff at Copenhagen , are made from the original German seventh - century form of the poem . The Christian and chivalric She en- elements of the later forms are entirely ...
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... poetry is so full . Beowulf plunges into the sea , rises with the monster who has seized him into her cave , slays her with a magic sword , and returns triumphant with Grendel's head to Hrothgar , who sends him home to Hygelac laden ...
... poetry is so full . Beowulf plunges into the sea , rises with the monster who has seized him into her cave , slays her with a magic sword , and returns triumphant with Grendel's head to Hrothgar , who sends him home to Hygelac laden ...
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