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Poetic Diction in Old English Poetry

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Old English Religious Poetry

2012
The surviving vernacular poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period is mostly religious, much of it overtly so. The more secular pieces usually associated with the church have survived because of their inclusion in manuscripts created or preserved in religious institutions. Even works such as “The Wanderer” and “The Seafarer,” once seen as expressing the world
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Alcuin and Old English Poetry

The Yearbook of English Studies, 1977
alike risk both a serious misreading of the famous rhetorical question and total neglect of the contributions that a study of Alcuin can make to their understanding of Old English poetry. In general those contributions are his witness to the affinities between the vernacular literature and contemporary Latin writing; for our purposes, it may be ...
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Color in Old English Poetry

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1899
It is a somewhat singular fact that although students of our language and literature have been carefully gleaning their chosen fields and leaving scarcely any entirely new theme for investigation, there should remain practically untouched a subject of high interest and æsthetic importance,— I mean the use of color in poetry.
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