Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... poems , added to and modernised . They sing the wars of the northern Cymry with the Angles , and of the Cymry of Wales ... poem of imaginative importance after the Conquest - the Brut of Layamon --arose in the heart of one who dwelt at ...
... poems , added to and modernised . They sing the wars of the northern Cymry with the Angles , and of the Cymry of Wales ... poem of imaginative importance after the Conquest - the Brut of Layamon --arose in the heart of one who dwelt at ...
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... poem suffers from a Christian interpola- tion . It is a true lyric , with a ' refrain ' at the end of each verse , and this is unique in Old English poetry . The two fraginents of the poem of Waldhere , found by Werlauff at Copenhagen ...
... poem suffers from a Christian interpola- tion . It is a true lyric , with a ' refrain ' at the end of each verse , and this is unique in Old English poetry . The two fraginents of the poem of Waldhere , found by Werlauff at Copenhagen ...
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... poem by the single writer of the whole . Grendel's dam is a sea - monster , and lives in a sea - cave ; her hands are armed with claws ; her blood eats like fire ; she is even more savage than her son . The place where she dwells among ...
... poem by the single writer of the whole . Grendel's dam is a sea - monster , and lives in a sea - cave ; her hands are armed with claws ; her blood eats like fire ; she is even more savage than her son . The place where she dwells among ...
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... poems , such as the three Riddles on the storms , which treat of Nature alone , of Nature for her own sake . One of these is placed among the extracts . The finest of them is a long poem upon the Hurricane , impersonated as a giant ...
... poems , such as the three Riddles on the storms , which treat of Nature alone , of Nature for her own sake . One of these is placed among the extracts . The finest of them is a long poem upon the Hurricane , impersonated as a giant ...
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... poem naturally falls : Noe freme . swa hine nergend heht hyrde tham hal gan . heofon cyninge ongan . ofostlice that hof wyrcan . micle mere cieste . magum sægde . that was threalic thing theodum toweard . rethe wite . hie ne rohton thæs ...
... poem naturally falls : Noe freme . swa hine nergend heht hyrde tham hal gan . heofon cyninge ongan . ofostlice that hof wyrcan . micle mere cieste . magum sægde . that was threalic thing theodum toweard . rethe wite . hie ne rohton thæs ...
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