A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... saints , those of Saint Andreas and Saint Guthlac , and other pious poems , The Phoenix and The Dream of the Rood . Almost , he was erected into the single author of all the Christian Anglo - Saxon poetry extant . Finally , a search was ...
... saints , those of Saint Andreas and Saint Guthlac , and other pious poems , The Phoenix and The Dream of the Rood . Almost , he was erected into the single author of all the Christian Anglo - Saxon poetry extant . Finally , a search was ...
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... Saint Juliana , Saint Helen , and Saint Andreas are exotic saints , whose legends , doubtless transcribed from Greek into Latin , have been , on the whole , faithfully followed by the Anglo - Saxon poets . All of them have an oriental ...
... Saint Juliana , Saint Helen , and Saint Andreas are exotic saints , whose legends , doubtless transcribed from Greek into Latin , have been , on the whole , faithfully followed by the Anglo - Saxon poets . All of them have an oriental ...
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... Saint Andreas from the diffuse wordiness of most Anglo - Saxon Christian poems . It is less diluted than most of them . The unknown author is nevertheless to be suspected of a rhetoric not so innocent as that of his pre- decessors . As ...
... Saint Andreas from the diffuse wordiness of most Anglo - Saxon Christian poems . It is less diluted than most of them . The unknown author is nevertheless to be suspected of a rhetoric not so innocent as that of his pre- decessors . As ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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