The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King Ælfred, by Stopford A. Brooke ...Macmillan and Company, 1892 - 500 páginas |
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Página vii
... as closely as I could make it , the movement and the variety of the original verse . A prose trans- lation , even when it reaches excellence , gives no idea whatever of that to which the ancient English listened . The PREFACE vii.
... as closely as I could make it , the movement and the variety of the original verse . A prose trans- lation , even when it reaches excellence , gives no idea whatever of that to which the ancient English listened . The PREFACE vii.
Página viii
... ancient English listened . The 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 ...
... ancient English listened . The 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 ...
Página x
... ancient English only as litera- ture , could not have been written at all , or , at least , not on any sure foundation . No translation worth reading , or giving a clear representation of what the Anglo - Saxon poets thought or felt ...
... ancient English only as litera- ture , could not have been written at all , or , at least , not on any sure foundation . No translation worth reading , or giving a clear representation of what the Anglo - Saxon poets thought or felt ...
Página xi
... ancient English poetry . Professor Grein is gone from us , but he will never be forgot- ten . To his Dictionary I owe my first interest in the Anglo- Saxon language , my first understanding of its power and charm . To his translation of ...
... ancient English poetry . Professor Grein is gone from us , but he will never be forgot- ten . To his Dictionary I owe my first interest in the Anglo- Saxon language , my first understanding of its power and charm . To his translation of ...
Página xii
... ancient places of this country where our forefathers met together for religion or war or council , they seem to appeal to England to take care of them , to give them interest and affection . Far too few of them remain , far too many of ...
... ancient places of this country where our forefathers met together for religion or war or council , they seem to appeal to England to take care of them , to give them interest and affection . Far too few of them remain , far too many of ...
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The History of Early English Literature Being the History of English Poetry ... Stopford Augustus Brooke Visualização integral - 1892 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Ælfred Ætheling Alcuin ancient Andrew Anglo-Saxon poetry Baeda battle beast belong Beowulf Bishop Breca brought Caedmon Christ Christian Chronicle cliffs conjecture 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 hell Hengest Heorot hero Hildeburh holy host Hrothgar Hygd Hygelac imagination Ingeld Irish king land Latin legend Lindisfarne lines literary literature lived Lord Mercia monastery monk myth night noble Northumbria o'er ocean passage passion 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 tree verse Wanderer warriors waves Welsh Wessex West Saxon Whitby whole Widsith Woden words writer written Wyrd
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