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 1 |
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... English power but the English tongue , and put Danish in the place of English throughout these islands . The same Elfred who made the first Cyclopædia of earlier English song and story saved the English land and folk and speech from ...
... English power but the English tongue , and put Danish in the place of English throughout these islands . The same Elfred who made the first Cyclopædia of earlier English song and story saved the English land and folk and speech from ...
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... English in which the Ancren Riwle ( the Rule of Anchoresses ) was written in the reign of Henry III . It was the first Middle English Prose . The English of the Chronicle illustrates this transition . The Chronicle is the continuous ...
... English in which the Ancren Riwle ( the Rule of Anchoresses ) was written in the reign of Henry III . It was the first Middle English Prose . The English of the Chronicle illustrates this transition . The Chronicle is the continuous ...
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... English poetry . But the negative influence of the new con- ception was potent . Old English history and traditions soon ceased to interest poets , the use of the forms of Old English poetry gradually died out , and English writers took ...
... English poetry . But the negative influence of the new con- ception was potent . Old English history and traditions soon ceased to interest poets , the use of the forms of Old English poetry gradually died out , and English writers took ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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