A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1923 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... poet , who alone could insure this fame , was held in high esteem . The Gleeman and the Scôp . - Two classes of singers were recognized , first the gleeman ( gleóman ) , who did not create his own songs , but merely chanted what he had ...
... poet , who alone could insure this fame , was held in high esteem . The Gleeman and the Scôp . - Two classes of singers were recognized , first the gleeman ( gleóman ) , who did not create his own songs , but merely chanted what he had ...
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... poet himself speaks . His skill has been eclipsed by another singer , Heor- renda , and his lord has taken away from him his land - right and his place at court , in order to bestow them upon the suc- cessful rival . The poet comforts ...
... poet himself speaks . His skill has been eclipsed by another singer , Heor- renda , and his lord has taken away from him his land - right and his place at court , in order to bestow them upon the suc- cessful rival . The poet comforts ...
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... poet held among them ? Why ? Pick out as many characteristics as possible of their early life , from the account given of Beowulf . What virtues and personal qualities make Beowulf , the young gothic Prince , the typical hero of our ...
... poet held among them ? Why ? Pick out as many characteristics as possible of their early life , from the account given of Beowulf . What virtues and personal qualities make Beowulf , the young gothic Prince , the typical hero of our ...
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... poet cannot restrain his exultation ; and the flight of the army of Holofernes before the men of Israel is described with grewsome vividness . Cynewulf . If we know little of Caedmon's life , we know still less of Cynewulf , the poet ...
... poet cannot restrain his exultation ; and the flight of the army of Holofernes before the men of Israel is described with grewsome vividness . Cynewulf . If we know little of Caedmon's life , we know still less of Cynewulf , the poet ...
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... poet's name that has survived from those obscure and troubled times . The " Phoenix . " - The Phenix derives a special interest from the fact that it is the only Anglo - Saxon poem of any length which shows a delight in the soft and ...
... poet's name that has survived from those obscure and troubled times . The " Phoenix . " - The Phenix derives a special interest from the fact that it is the only Anglo - Saxon poem of any length which shows a delight in the soft and ...
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