A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... later time when the art of writing was acquired from Irish and Roman missionaries . The poem Widsith , which in its first form may belong to the fourth century - for additions were made to it from time to time to keep it up to date - is ...
... later time when the art of writing was acquired from Irish and Roman missionaries . The poem Widsith , which in its first form may belong to the fourth century - for additions were made to it from time to time to keep it up to date - is ...
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... later date , and by different authors . Part of Genesis , indeed , is known to be an adaptation of an Old Saxon poem , and can hardly have been earlier than 850 , two centuries later than Cadmon . Of the life of Cynewulf we know nothing ...
... later date , and by different authors . Part of Genesis , indeed , is known to be an adaptation of an Old Saxon poem , and can hardly have been earlier than 850 , two centuries later than Cadmon . Of the life of Cynewulf we know nothing ...
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... later days , to Geoffrey belongs the credit of first seeing its literary possibilities . It is in the Historia , too , that we first read of Lear and his daughters , of Cymbeline , Sabrina , and Locrine . Fabrication though it is , the ...
... later days , to Geoffrey belongs the credit of first seeing its literary possibilities . It is in the Historia , too , that we first read of Lear and his daughters , of Cymbeline , Sabrina , and Locrine . Fabrication though it is , the ...
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... later date , in the fourteenth century , many ballads , roundels , virelays , and complaints were written in England in the French language - for example , by Gower - in imitation of contemporary practice across the Channel . These ...
... later date , in the fourteenth century , many ballads , roundels , virelays , and complaints were written in England in the French language - for example , by Gower - in imitation of contemporary practice across the Channel . These ...
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... later day . Were it only on the question of origins ' —not always an enthralling question but here more enthralling than usual - the early English romances would demand respect . Here most surely we have the beginnings of the modern ...
... later day . Were it only on the question of origins ' —not always an enthralling question but here more enthralling than usual - the early English romances would demand respect . Here most surely we have the beginnings of the modern ...
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