...scheme, were brought in their native tongue to the Anglo-Saxons. " Caedmon's poetry," says Milman, " was their Bible, no doubt far more effective in awakening...literal translation of the Scriptures could have been."* As early as the eighth century the Anglo-Saxons not only founded several public libraries at home,...

...the imaginative form which it then wore, made at once accessible to the Anglo-Saxon people. Caedmon's poetry was their bible, no doubt far more effective...poetry, a dim prophecy of what that poetry might become ' Kemble's Beowulf, with preface. propinquare sibi citharam cernebat, s " Unde nonnunquam in conviviis,...

...imaginative form which it then wore, made at once accessible to the Anglo-Saxon people.i Caedmou's poetry was their Bible, no doubt far more effective...literal translation of the Scriptures could have been." a In ' Probabl y at a later time vemaenlar translations of most of the Scriptures were executed. The...

...CUTHBERT'S visiox. Per. ill. " Casdmon's poetry," remarks Milman, "was the *"'p' people's Bible. . . . He chose by the natural test of his own kindred sympathies,...or strike to the heart of a rude yet poetic race." 1 SECTION II. In the same year that Aidan died, so Bede relates, a youthful shepherd in the hill country...

...purest Greek models, displays at least an elevation characteristic of the noblest poetry. TESTIMONIES. THE Anglo-Saxon was the earliest vernacular Christian...poetry, a dim prophecy of what that poetry might become in Dante and Milton. While all the Greek and Latin poetry labored with the difficulties of an uncongenial...

...the imaginative farm which it then wore, made at once accessible to the Anglo-Saxon people. CiBdmon'a poetry was their bible, no doubt far more effective in awakening and changing the popular mind than & literal translation of the Scriptures could have been. He chose, by the natural test of his own kindred...

...imaginative form which it then wore, made at once accessible to /the Anglo-Saxon people. Csedmon's poetry was their bible, no doubt far more effective...or strike to the heart of a rude yet poetic race. — MILMAN, HENRY HART, 18~>4, History of Latin Christianity, vol. II, p. 95. His style not unfrequently...

...scheme, were brought in their native tongue to the Anglo-Saxons. " Caedmon's poetry," says Milman, " was their Bible, no doubt far more effective in awakening...literal translation of the Scriptures could have been."* As early as the eighth century the Anglo-Saxons not only founded several public libraries at home,...

.... . The dominant note in the literature of these islands is the English note." — STOPFORD BROOKE. "The Anglo-Saxon was the earliest vernacular Christian...poetry, a dim prophecy of what that poetry might become in Dante and Milton." — HUMAN. 20 CHAPTER II MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD, 1066-1360 A. Historical Notes...