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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... Latin , and it was the Latin of a scholar who knew the Roman classics . He wrote Latin verse with ease , and trans- lated into hexameters the stories of his prose trea- tise De laudibus Virgini- tatis . His Latin Riddles sent to ...
... Latin , and it was the Latin of a scholar who knew the Roman classics . He wrote Latin verse with ease , and trans- lated into hexameters the stories of his prose trea- tise De laudibus Virgini- tatis . His Latin Riddles sent to ...
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... Latin literature in the Mid- England kingdom of Mercia is even of less im- portance than it is in Wessex . Under Æthelbald the country seems to have won a reputation for learning ; and Ecgwin , Bishop of Worcester , is said to be our ...
... Latin literature in the Mid- England kingdom of Mercia is even of less im- portance than it is in Wessex . Under Æthelbald the country seems to have won a reputation for learning ; and Ecgwin , Bishop of Worcester , is said to be our ...
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... Latin and French ( see page 74 ) before he turned to English in his Latin - named Confessio Amantis . Gower also wrote French balades which have real literary merit , but he is the last English poet who seriously used a foreign language ...
... Latin and French ( see page 74 ) before he turned to English in his Latin - named Confessio Amantis . Gower also wrote French balades which have real literary merit , but he is the last English poet who seriously used a foreign language ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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