A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... themes do not break so completely with the heathen narratives as not to adopt something of their method and spirit . The tribes who invaded and occupied England in the fifth and sixth centuries were heathen marauders from Den- mark and ...
... themes do not break so completely with the heathen narratives as not to adopt something of their method and spirit . The tribes who invaded and occupied England in the fifth and sixth centuries were heathen marauders from Den- mark and ...
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... themes of separate lays which the shaper of Beowulf knew and worked upon . One of them , that of Finn , has in fact been preserved in an independent form in the fragment on the Fight at Finnsburh . It is tolerably certain that Beowulf ...
... themes of separate lays which the shaper of Beowulf knew and worked upon . One of them , that of Finn , has in fact been preserved in an independent form in the fragment on the Fight at Finnsburh . It is tolerably certain that Beowulf ...
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... themes were opened up for the scop and the poet . We are not to suppose that the old pagan poetry ceased at once to find an audience : some of it , like Beowulf , was put into writing , as we have seen , by Christian scholars , who ...
... themes were opened up for the scop and the poet . We are not to suppose that the old pagan poetry ceased at once to find an audience : some of it , like Beowulf , was put into writing , as we have seen , by Christian scholars , who ...
Sivu 5
... themes from the Bible story , as in Genesis , Exodus , Daniel , Christ and Satan ; from saints ' lives , as in Juliana , Elene , Andreas , Guthlac ; from the apocrypha , as in Judith ; or from the services of the church , as in Crist ...
... themes from the Bible story , as in Genesis , Exodus , Daniel , Christ and Satan ; from saints ' lives , as in Juliana , Elene , Andreas , Guthlac ; from the apocrypha , as in Judith ; or from the services of the church , as in Crist ...
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... themes are the Nativity , the Ascension , and the Last Judgment : part of it is an expansion , lyrical in nature , of the choral services of the church . The Dream of the Rood , in which the Cross speaks and describes the Passion , is ...
... themes are the Nativity , the Ascension , and the Last Judgment : part of it is an expansion , lyrical in nature , of the choral services of the church . The Dream of the Rood , in which the Cross speaks and describes the Passion , is ...
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