A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... poem ends with the customary description of the field covered with the dead : Behind them they let the corpses share The dark - feathered fowl , the raven black , The crooked - beaked , and the ashy - feathered , White - tailed eagle ...
... poem ends with the customary description of the field covered with the dead : Behind them they let the corpses share The dark - feathered fowl , the raven black , The crooked - beaked , and the ashy - feathered , White - tailed eagle ...
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... poem by Avitus , and there is a freedom of imagination not found in the other Cædmonian poems , and an attempt at a ... poem , Heliand , or The Saviour , and critics incline to think that it is a translation or imitation of a lost poem ...
... poem by Avitus , and there is a freedom of imagination not found in the other Cædmonian poems , and an attempt at a ... poem , Heliand , or The Saviour , and critics incline to think that it is a translation or imitation of a lost poem ...
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... Poets , vol . viii . John Pomfret , 1667-1702 , published in 1700 The Choice , which won a great and lasting success . Poems , ibid . , vol . viii . Sir Samuel Garth , 1661-1719 , is remembered for his poem The Dispensary , 1699. Poems ...
... Poets , vol . viii . John Pomfret , 1667-1702 , published in 1700 The Choice , which won a great and lasting success . Poems , ibid . , vol . viii . Sir Samuel Garth , 1661-1719 , is remembered for his poem The Dispensary , 1699. Poems ...
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ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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