Tag: Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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Note: All translation from ‘Anglo-Saxon is the author’s. English had not long been a written language before it began producing masterworks of poetry. One of the earliest and to my mind most beautiful is the elegy we call “The Seafarer” in modern scholarship. It begins like this: Preview Open

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We are starting to get into more complex forms, and more complex forms can require a better technical vocabulary. So, before describing today’s form, I would like to define a few terms. Definitions Preview Open

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