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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Page 168
... early sixteenth century Scotland had poets more than equal to England's best than that in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth the little land should prove singularly barren , just when the glory of English letters was at its ...
... early sixteenth century Scotland had poets more than equal to England's best than that in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth the little land should prove singularly barren , just when the glory of English letters was at its ...
Page 171
... early Northumbrians of Lothian . The Life of Cuthbert was written about the same time as Adamnan's Life of Columba , most famous of early books in the Celtic region of Scotland ; but both Columba and Adamnan were Irish - born Scots ...
... early Northumbrians of Lothian . The Life of Cuthbert was written about the same time as Adamnan's Life of Columba , most famous of early books in the Celtic region of Scotland ; but both Columba and Adamnan were Irish - born Scots ...
Page 208
... Early English Text Society by Small , Hall , and Sir J. Murray ( 1865-71 ) , and the Scottish Text Society has promised an edition . Some thirty recorded Scottish editions ( up to 1777 ) attest his great popularity . Early Minor Poets ...
... Early English Text Society by Small , Hall , and Sir J. Murray ( 1865-71 ) , and the Scottish Text Society has promised an edition . Some thirty recorded Scottish editions ( up to 1777 ) attest his great popularity . Early Minor Poets ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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