The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King AElfred, Volume 2Macmillan, 1892 - 502 páginas |
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... original English race ; it has owed much to the different types of poetry it absorbed - Greek , Latin , Welsh , French , Italian , Spanish - but below all these admix- tures , the English nature wrought its steady will . It seized , it ...
... original English race ; it has owed much to the different types of poetry it absorbed - Greek , Latin , Welsh , French , Italian , Spanish - but below all these admix- tures , the English nature wrought its steady will . It seized , it ...
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... original form is destroyed , and with it our imagination of the world to which the poet sang , of the way he thought , of how he shaped his emotion . Prose no more represents poetry than architec- ture does music . Translations of ...
... original form is destroyed , and with it our imagination of the world to which the poet sang , of the way he thought , of how he shaped his emotion . Prose no more represents poetry than architec- ture does music . Translations of ...
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... original . But when I could not easily alliterate my line or stress the allit- erated word , I did not try to do so . It was better , I thought , to give literally the sense and the sentiment of the original than to strain them or lose ...
... original . But when I could not easily alliterate my line or stress the allit- erated word , I did not try to do so . It was better , I thought , to give literally the sense and the sentiment of the original than to strain them or lose ...
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... original , and I could not rest till I was able to do so . When I had read them I could not rest till I had written this book . The other scholar to whom this book owes so much is Professor Wülker . He needs no praise , but he may take ...
... original , and I could not rest till I was able to do so . When I had read them I could not rest till I had written this book . The other scholar to whom this book owes so much is Professor Wülker . He needs no praise , but he may take ...
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... original lays of the legend . The same kind of controversy which has raged over the com- position of the Iliad and Odyssey has raged also over Beowulf . It is said that it is a single poem composed by one man ; and , on the contrary ...
... original lays of the legend . The same kind of controversy which has raged over the com- position of the Iliad and Odyssey has raged also over Beowulf . It is said that it is a single poem composed by one man ; and , on the contrary ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Ælfred Ætheling Alcuin ancient Andrew Anglo-Saxon Baeda battle beast belong Beowulf Bishop Breca brought Caedmon Christ Christian cliffs conjecture Cuthbert Cynewulf Danes death dragon Ealdhelm earth Ecgberht eighth century Elene England English poetry Exeter Book Fates fight Geat Genesis glory Grendel Guthlac hall hand heart heathen Heaven Heliand hell helm Hengest Heorot hero holy host Hrothgar Hygd Hygelac imagination Ingeld Irish king land Latin legend Lindisfarne lines literary literature lived Lord Mercia monastery monks myth night noble North Northumbria o'er ocean passage phrase poem poet poetic riddle Roman Rood runes saga sang says Sceaf Scyld seems shield ship sing song sorrow soul speaks spears spirit storm story sung sword tale tells Teutonic thee thegns things thou thought translation trees verse Wanderer warriors waves Welsh Wessex West Saxon Whitby whole Widsith Woden words writer written Wyrd