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Kennedy, Charles W. 1882-1969.

The earliest English poetry : a critical survey of the poetry written before the Norman Conquest : with illustrative translations / by Charles W. Kennedy. - London : Oxford University Press, 1943. - viii, 375 p. : ill., 22 cm.

Bibliography: p. 369-375.

Germanic tradition -- Continental backgrounds -- Beowulf -- The elegies -- The riddles and gnomic verse -- The C�dmonian poems -- The signed poems of Cynewulf -- Poetry in the Cynewulfian manner -- The religious heroic tale -- Christian allegory -- Minor religious poems -- The historic battle poems -- The Old English manuscripts; The Cynewulfian signatures; The 'storm' Riddles. Appendix

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English poetry--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
English poetry--Modernized versions.--Old English, ca. 450-1100

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