Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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... POETRY 7 THOMAS USK CÆDMON AND THE CHRISTIAN POETRY CYNEWULF LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ELFRED ... 212 SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE ... JOHN OF TREVISA 16 . BÆDA ... ELFRED . 18 JOHN WYCLIF THE BIBLE ... 19 NICHOLAS HEREFORD BRUNANBURH ... POETRY FROM ...
... POETRY 7 THOMAS USK CÆDMON AND THE CHRISTIAN POETRY CYNEWULF LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ELFRED ... 212 SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE ... JOHN OF TREVISA 16 . BÆDA ... ELFRED . 18 JOHN WYCLIF THE BIBLE ... 19 NICHOLAS HEREFORD BRUNANBURH ... POETRY FROM ...
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... poetry and learning of Ireland , had set up his church and dwelling . Oswald , King of Northumbria , who had been educated at Iona , summoned the Celtic monks to convert his country in 634 ; and Oswiu , also trained at Iona , extended ...
... poetry and learning of Ireland , had set up his church and dwelling . Oswald , King of Northumbria , who had been educated at Iona , summoned the Celtic monks to convert his country in 634 ; and Oswiu , also trained at Iona , extended ...
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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 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 of some of the ancient poetry . In the following centuries the ...
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... poetry . The two fraginents of the poem of Waldhere , found by Werlauff at Copenhagen , are made from the original German seventh - century form of the poem . The Christian and chivalric elements of the later forms are entirely absent ...
... poetry . The two fraginents of the poem of Waldhere , found by Werlauff at Copenhagen , are made from the original German seventh - century form of the poem . The Christian and chivalric elements of the later forms are entirely absent ...
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... poetry is so full . Beowulf plunges into the sea , rises with the monster who has seized him into her cave , slays her with a magic sword , and returns triumphant with Grendel's head to Hrothgar , who sends him home to Hygelac laden ...
... poetry is so full . Beowulf plunges into the sea , rises with the monster who has seized him into her cave , slays her with a magic sword , and returns triumphant with Grendel's head to Hrothgar , who sends him home to Hygelac laden ...
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