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The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book. It comprises 115 lines of alliterative verse . As is often the case with Anglo-Saxon verse, the composer and compiler are anonymous, and within the manuscript the poem is untitled.
The Reign of Youth, a Lyrical Poem,1840. He also contributed notes to the Italian edition of Byron's poems published in 1842, and assisted his son Charles Rann Kennedy in the translation of Virgil, published in 1849, he undertaking the first four Eclogues, the Georgics, and the first four books of the Aeneid. Some pieces by him will be found in ...
Wanderer (1879), the last whaling ship built in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, for which The Wanderer (Massachusetts newspaper) was named; Wanderer (1891), a four-masted steel barque which inspired John Masefield's poem of the same name; Wanderer (1893), a San Francisco pilot boat bought by Sterling Hayden and used for his voyage to Tahiti
Ellen Oliver Van Fleet (née, Oliver; March 2, 1842 – May 8, 1893) was a 19th-century American poet and hymnwriter. "The Wanderer's Prayer" is one of her more notable hymns. [1]
X. J. Kennedy (born Joseph Charles Kennedy on August 21, 1929, in Dover, New Jersey) is an American poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and author of children's literature and textbooks on English literature and poetry.
Poems. Privately printed at Yale University Press, New Haven, pp 109–116. The poem is translated in its entirety in this collection. A post-Pound publication. Spaeth, John Duncan (1921), Early English Poems, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 68– 71. The poem is explained as a dialogue between The Old Sailor and Youth, and ends at ...
Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (25 September 1780 – 30 October 1824), was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained in the Church of Ireland) and a writer of Gothic plays and novels. [1] His best known work is the novel Melmoth the Wanderer, published in 1820.
Roman pool (with associated modern superstructure) at Bath, England.The pool and Roman ruins may be the subject of the poem. "The Ruin of the Empire", or simply "The Ruin", is an elegy in Old English, written by an unknown author probably in the 8th or 9th century, and published in the 10th century in the Exeter Book, a large collection of poems and riddles. [1]