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English Literature from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest

English Literature from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest

Brooke, Stopford Augustus

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150800658
ISBN13: 9781150800658
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.54 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...and change. The Julianal is in the Exeter Book. Its source is the Ada S. fulianae, vJ ginis, martyris. Cynewulf has worked the legend up with some care for unity of feeling and form. Juliana is led from triumph to triumph, in a series of episodes couched in Cynewulf's favourite form of dialogue; to her final purification in death. There is some tentative art in the poem, but art and work are both poor. Abrupt changes, crude dialogue, tiresome repeti-/ tion, disfigure the poet's recast of the legend. It is written by a man who was wearied of himself or weary of his subject. A few touches of rough humour, very similar to those which occur in the Andreas, an attempt to realise the mingling in Juliana's character of iron resolution and of womanly charm, the turning of the devil into the northern dragon and of Heliseus the persecutor into an English heathen king, are the only things in which the English poet himself appears. It is a transition poem in which the writer is feeling his way into originality/ In the Crist, ' which is the next signed poem, this note of sorrow for sin ciyitipHes, but with a difference. How are we troubled, he cries, through our own desires! Weak, I wander, stumbling and forlorn. Come, king of men, we need thy mercy to do the better things. But there is also another note; of peace almost attained, of modest joy, and. these two--sorrow for sin, delight in forgiveness--mix tlTeir music, like life and death, throughout the poem. The personal passage in which his name is signed belongs to his sorrow. It is in the middle of the Crist, at the end of the second division, when he is about, in the third, to sing the day of judgment. I dread the sterner doom, he cries, terror and vengeance for my sins. 1 Then the...

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