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  2. Old English literature - Wikipedia

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    Poetry written in the mid 12th century represents some of the latest post-Norman examples of Old English. [3] Adherence to the grammatical rules of Old English is largely inconsistent in 12th-century work, and by the 13th century the grammar and syntax of Old English had almost completely deteriorated, giving way to the much larger Middle ...

  3. List of epic poems - Wikipedia

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    Mlokhim-Bukh (Old Yiddish epic poem based on the Biblical Books of Kings) Book of Dede Korkut (Oghuz Turks) Le Morte d'Arthur (Middle English) Morgante (Italian) by Luigi Pulci (1485), with elements typical of the mock-heroic genre; The Wallace by Blind Harry (Scots chivalric poem) Troy Book by John Lydgate, about the Trojan war (Middle English)

  4. Category:Old English poems - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Old English poems" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 ...

  5. The Wanderer (Old English poem) - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Widsith - Wikipedia

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    "Widsith" (Old English: Wīdsīþ, "far-traveller", lit. "wide-journey"), also known as "The Traveller's Song", [1] is an Old English poem of 143 lines. It survives only in the Exeter Book ( pages 84v–87r ), a manuscript of Old English poetry compiled in the late-10th century, which contains approximately one-sixth of all surviving Old ...

  7. List of poems by William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

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    "Though narrow be that old Man's cares, and near," Poems belonging to the Period of Old Age (1815); Miscellaneous Sonnets (1820) 1807 Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle 1807 "High in the breathless Hall the Minstrel sate," Poems of the Imagination: 1807 The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons: 1807–1810

  8. Maxims (Old English poems) - Wikipedia

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    "Maxims I" (sometimes treated as three separate poems, "Maxims I, A, B and C") and "Maxims II" are pieces of Old English gnomic poetry. The poem "Maxims I" can be found in the Exeter Book and "Maxims II" is located in a lesser known manuscript, London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B i.

  9. Christ I - Wikipedia

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    Christ I is found on folios 8r-14r of the Exeter Book, a collection of Old English poetry today containing 123 folios. The collection also contains a number of other religious and allegorical poems. [3] Some folios have been lost at the start of the poem, meaning that an indeterminate amount of the original composition is missing. [4]