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Frontispiece to George Chapman's translation of the Odyssey, the first influential translation in English. Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first ...
All that, my God, you are asked so much for That you no longer have them. Give me, my God, what remains Give me what others refuse. I want insecurity and anxiety. I want turmoil and brawl. And that you give them to me, my God, forever So that I am always sure to have them. For I will not always have the courage to ask. Give me, my God, what you ...
A moth ate words. To me that seemed a fantastical event, when I found that wonder out, that a worm swallowed the poem of a some person, a thief in darkness, a glorious statement and its strong foundation. The thieving stranger was not a whit more wise that he swallowed those words. A moth ate words.
The book's instructive quality is in teaching the alphabet using a mnemonic device. The Insect God is the only book in the collection with a clear-cut narrative. It follows a little girl who is alone outside and is abducted by anthropomorphic insects in a black motorcar, who then whisk her away and present her to the "Insect God" as a human ...
Christ I (also known as Christ A or (The) Advent Lyrics) is a fragmentary collection of Old English poems on the coming of the Lord, preserved in the Exeter Book.In its present state, the poem comprises 439 lines in twelve distinct sections.
The poem shows the influence of Christian, particularly Biblical, theology, and a certain maturity of outlook, given the youth of the writer. It testifies to the writer's evident meditation on the 15th chapter of the Gospel of John , on the 8th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans , and to her experience of life.
The poem is found in only one manuscript, the Reichenauer Schulheft or Reichenau Primer.The primer appears to be the notebook of an Irish monk based in Reichenau Abbey. The contents of the primer are diverse, it also contains "notes from a commentary of the Aeneid, some hymns, a brief glossary of Greek words, some Greek declension, notes on biblical places, a tract on the nature of angels, and ...
Daniel is an anonymous Old English poem based loosely on the Biblical Book of Daniel, found in the Junius Manuscript. The author and the date of Daniel are unknown. Critics have argued that Cædmon is the author of the poem, but this theory has been since disproven. [citation needed] Daniel, as it is preserved, is 764 lines long. There have ...