The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
“DE PRINCIPE BONO ET MALO” SIR THOMAS MORE (1516) This poem, like most of SIR THOMAS MORE’s EPIGRAMs, is composed in elegaic COU ...
was thought that she had conspired to overthrow Eliz- abeth’s rule and reestablish Roman Catholicism as the state religion, the ...
Scotland—to land at England’s ports. Elizabeth will also not allow invasion by “seditious sects” (l. 27), a reference to Roman C ...
Dowland composed a number of AYREs, predomi- nantly for voice and lute, and was one of the instigators of the genre, and compose ...
ll. 44, 42a, and 48b are stamped on metal strips attached to the BRUSSELS CROSS, an 11th-century pro- cessional cross and reliqu ...
“bloodless martyrdom.” Recent scholarship emphasizes the liturgical features of the poet’s thought, connecting it to the physica ...
sights and visions that offer new levels of understand- ing. Occasionally these include visions that give the impression of bein ...
and this may be because his court patrons demanded the subject and style of his poems. His three poems that have received the mo ...
C D 154 EARLY IRISH SAGAS (ca. fourth century) Whether oral-literary or literary-oral in source, Early Irish EPIC literature rem ...
needed when the Connacht queen and king and army invaded Ulster to capture the famed Black-Brown Bull (Donn Cuailgne). All grown ...
Between the eighth and 12th centuries, the oral tra- dition merged with a writing system that allowed Irish verse to be recorded ...
But his major concern is the “Development of the Indi- vidual” (Part 2)—including, briefl y, women—and the “Discovery of the Wor ...
modern may, to some extent, regard some individuals as “great,” as benefi ting from the interaction of change agents swirling ab ...
mourns the loss of his lord, but the narrator in “The RUIN” mourns unknown people and their culture. The 16th century witnessed ...
should fail to provide a legitimate son. Approximately two years after Elizabeth’s birth, Anne Boleyn was tried on charges of ad ...
country, or as a benevolent queen/mother to her sub- jects/children. Her authority allowed her to demand con- tinued use of the ...
described her, he hoped that she found his depiction of her pleasant enough that she might give him money or a court appointment ...
group includes JOHN LYDGATE, THOMAS HOCCLEVE, Bene- dict Burgh (d. ca. 1483), George Ashby (d. 1537), Henry Bradshaw (d. 1513), ...
“ENVOY TO BUKTON” (“LENVOY DE CHAUCER A BUKTON”) GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1396) Chaucer’s envoy (ENVOI), or verse letter, to Bukton is ...
can be taken unequivocally. The poem is a topical piece that is best looked upon as an exercise in comic irony. See also SATIRE. ...
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