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 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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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 . The distinctive Christian poetry begins before the date of the Elegies and the Nature - Riddles — in the seventh century , with Cadmon of Whitby . He is the first English poet whose name we know , and it stands at the head of ...
... Poetry . The distinctive Christian poetry begins before the date of the Elegies and the Nature - Riddles — in the seventh century , with Cadmon of Whitby . He is the first English poet whose name we know , and it stands at the head of ...
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... poetry . He showed to his folk how the new material of Christi- anity could be used by the bards of England . He made a great school of poetry . He made Cynewulf possible . He is the first English poet in our England . The royal line of ...
... poetry . He showed to his folk how the new material of Christi- anity could be used by the bards of England . He made a great school of poetry . He made Cynewulf possible . He is the first English poet in our England . The royal line of ...
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... poetry grew , other forms were developed - poems of a half- epic character , and narrative poems with episodes like heathen lays inserted on a background of narrative . Of these two kinds of poetry , which ran together , the Exeter Book ...
... poetry grew , other forms were developed - poems of a half- epic character , and narrative poems with episodes like heathen lays inserted on a background of narrative . Of these two kinds of poetry , which ran together , the Exeter Book ...
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... poet does not intrude into the poems . The second school of Christian poetry is clearly divided from its predecessor . Cynewulf was its founder and its best artist . Its subjects are drawn from the New Testament and the martyr stories ...
... poet does not intrude into the poems . The second school of Christian poetry is clearly divided from its predecessor . Cynewulf was its founder and its best artist . Its subjects are drawn from the New Testament and the martyr stories ...
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