Great English Writers, Volume 1Oscar James Campbell, Hardin Craig, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Joseph Morris Thomas F. S. Crofts & Company, 1939 A chronological rearrangement, with many additions, of the material included in the editors' Great English poets and Great English prose writers. cf. Pref. |
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... BEOWULF TEXTS Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg , ed . by F. Klaeber . New York , 1922 , 1936 . Beowulf , ed . by R. W. Chalmers . London , 1921 , 1932 . Beowulf , ed . by W. J. Sedgfield . Manchester , 1913 , 1935 . Beowulf , trans ...
... BEOWULF TEXTS Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg , ed . by F. Klaeber . New York , 1922 , 1936 . Beowulf , ed . by R. W. Chalmers . London , 1921 , 1932 . Beowulf , ed . by W. J. Sedgfield . Manchester , 1913 , 1935 . Beowulf , trans ...
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... Beowulf's story of the outcome of the swimming match with Breca . That was the greatest swimming ever done by man ( but not the only time that Beowulf was mighty in swimming , as we shall hear later ) . ' Such prowess , ' said Beowulf ...
... Beowulf's story of the outcome of the swimming match with Breca . That was the greatest swimming ever done by man ( but not the only time that Beowulf was mighty in swimming , as we shall hear later ) . ' Such prowess , ' said Beowulf ...
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... Beowulf's descent under the sea and the perilous beginning of the fight , and how Beowulf soon found himself in a deep - sea hall where no water was ; how Hrunting failed him at the stroke , and how Beowulf , relying again on sheer ...
... Beowulf's descent under the sea and the perilous beginning of the fight , and how Beowulf soon found himself in a deep - sea hall where no water was ; how Hrunting failed him at the stroke , and how Beowulf , relying again on sheer ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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