A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... Anglo - Saxon literature , when the first great literary works of the fourteenth century appeared , was not only dead , but also unknown ; its documents had been buried deep ; they were written in a language which had become ...
... Anglo - Saxon literature , when the first great literary works of the fourteenth century appeared , was not only dead , but also unknown ; its documents had been buried deep ; they were written in a language which had become ...
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... Anglo- Saxon poems the excessiveness for the themes of the traditional form , the disparity of dulcified subjects and verbal violence , is immediately striking . The Edda is full of allusions to a mythology of ... ANGLO - SAXON LITERATURE.
... Anglo- Saxon poems the excessiveness for the themes of the traditional form , the disparity of dulcified subjects and verbal violence , is immediately striking . The Edda is full of allusions to a mythology of ... ANGLO - SAXON LITERATURE.
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... Anglo - Saxon imagination . They are essentially Christian and also , it may be said , representative of the gloomiest of the Christian centuries . It is , however , impossible not to notice how aptly the rude ... ANGLO - SAXON LITERATURE.
... Anglo - Saxon imagination . They are essentially Christian and also , it may be said , representative of the gloomiest of the Christian centuries . It is , however , impossible not to notice how aptly the rude ... ANGLO - SAXON LITERATURE.
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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