A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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Page 40
... less would be known today about Anglo - Saxon speech and literature than is actually the case . A great deal is still not known , however , and will very likely never be dis- covered . The same statement applies in slightly less degree ...
... less would be known today about Anglo - Saxon speech and literature than is actually the case . A great deal is still not known , however , and will very likely never be dis- covered . The same statement applies in slightly less degree ...
Page 489
... less than any of the minor poets , less even than Byron , on rhetorical commonplace ; he did not abuse the language , as did Keats , with unnatural coinages and pseudo - Elizabethan idioms ; he made little use of con- ceits and ...
... less than any of the minor poets , less even than Byron , on rhetorical commonplace ; he did not abuse the language , as did Keats , with unnatural coinages and pseudo - Elizabethan idioms ; he made little use of con- ceits and ...
Page 599
... less professional Irish theater was perhaps as notable as the English by virtue of the high imaginative quality of the work of Synge and Yeats , not to speak of less striking figures . The Irish Literary Theatre was launched in 1899 ...
... less professional Irish theater was perhaps as notable as the English by virtue of the high imaginative quality of the work of Synge and Yeats , not to speak of less striking figures . The Irish Literary Theatre was launched in 1899 ...
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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