English Literature
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION—THE MEANING OF LITERATURE plest human emotions. Though we speak of national and race literatures, like t ...
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION—THE MEANING OF LITERATURE our imagination quickened, the study of literature has one definite object, an ...
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION—THE MEANING OF LITERATURE deeds possible. So Aristotle was profoundly right when he said that "poetry is ...
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION—THE MEANING OF LITERATURE man, who picks up and carefully preserves every scrap of pa- per on which word ...
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION—THE MEANING OF LITERATURE ESSAYS. Emerson’s Books, in Society and Solitude; Dowden’s The Interpretation ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) OUR FIRST POETRY BEOWULF.Here is the story of Beowulf, the earliest ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) son Beowulf^3 had become strong and wise enough to rule, then Wyrd ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) king and his thanes gathered nightly to feast and to listen to the ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) came gliding–God’s wrath^5 he bore– Came under clouds, un- til he s ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) monster’s side; the sinews snap; the whole arm is wrenched off at t ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) Then he girds himself for the new fight and follows the track of th ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) tries to hurl her down, while her claws and teeth clash upon his co ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) approaches the dragon’s cave, he has a presentiment that death lurk ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) But Wiglaf cares little for the treasures; his mind is full of his ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) Black from the Swedish pine, the sound of flame Mingled with sound ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) a positive judgment. This much, however, is clear,–that there exist ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) heightened by the harp with which the gleeman accompa- nied his sin ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) wandering life of the gleeman, who goes forth into the world to abi ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) Weland for a woman knew too well exile. Strong of soul that earl, s ...
CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) has always a longing, a sea-faring passion For what the Lord God sh ...
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