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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... 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 . In 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 . In the following centuries the ...
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... poetry composed by the bards in a chief's fol- lowing and by the wandering minstrels , outside of the monastic influence , was not likely to be influenced to any depth by Christianity . There are a few examples of such poetry in the ...
... poetry composed by the bards in a chief's fol- lowing and by the wandering minstrels , outside of the monastic influence , was not likely to be influenced to any depth by Christianity . There are a few examples of such poetry in the ...
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... poetry , in which the poet addresses the Saviour , the Virgin Mary , and Mary Magdalene , with all the passionate earnestness and fervour of a lover . He had a warm admiration for the ecstatic writings of St Teresa , to whom two of his ...
... poetry , in which the poet addresses the Saviour , the Virgin Mary , and Mary Magdalene , with all the passionate earnestness and fervour of a lover . He had a warm admiration for the ecstatic writings of St Teresa , to whom two of his ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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