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The earliest English poetry; a critical survey of the poetry written before the Norman Conquest,

Author: Charles W Kennedy
Publisher: London, New York [etc] Oxford University Press, 1943.
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Kennedy, Charles W. (Charles William), 1882-1969.
Earliest English poetry.
London, New York [etc] Oxford University Press, 1943
(OCoLC)573953263
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles W Kennedy
OCLC Number: 1316164
Description: viii, 375 p. 22 cm.
Contents: Germanic tradition --
Continental backgrounds --
Beowulf --
The elegies --
The riddles and gnomic verse --
The Cædmonian poems --
The signed poems of Cynewulf --
Poetry in the Cynewulfian manner --
The religious heroic tale --
Christian allegory --
Minor religious poems --
The historic battle poems --
Appendix: The Old English manuscripts; The Cynewulfian signatures; The 'storm' Riddles.
Responsibility: with illustrative translations, by Charles W. Kennedy.

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