A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... English . The French introduced not only some new sounds , such as j and oi , but also a different accentuation ... literature is any true sign , English did not receive many French words before the thirteenth century - after the loss of ...
... English . The French introduced not only some new sounds , such as j and oi , but also a different accentuation ... literature is any true sign , English did not receive many French words before the thirteenth century - after the loss of ...
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Hardin Craig. The Cambridge History of English Literature , ed . Sir A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller , 14 V. , Cambridge , 1907-16 . Chambers , Robert , Cyclopaedia of English Literature , rev . edn . , D. Patrick , 3 v . , Phila- delphia ...
Hardin Craig. The Cambridge History of English Literature , ed . Sir A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller , 14 V. , Cambridge , 1907-16 . Chambers , Robert , Cyclopaedia of English Literature , rev . edn . , D. Patrick , 3 v . , Phila- delphia ...
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Hardin Craig. Hudson , William H. , A Short History of English Literature in the Nineteenth Century , 1918 . Hutton , Richard H. , Essays Theological and Literary , v . II , 1871 , rev . and enl . , 1877 . Jackson , Holbrook , Dreamers ...
Hardin Craig. Hudson , William H. , A Short History of English Literature in the Nineteenth Century , 1918 . Hutton , Richard H. , Essays Theological and Literary , v . II , 1871 , rev . and enl . , 1877 . Jackson , Holbrook , Dreamers ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
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