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The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse was a poetry anthology edited by Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson and Arthur Hugh Evelyn Lee, and published in 1917 by the Oxford University Press. The compilation contains much religious verse, mainly from English Christian traditions, and some from other religions.
The Dream of the Rood, a work of Christian epic poetry in Old English believed to date from the 7th century, preserved in the Vercelli Book Heliand , an epic poem which retells the life of Jesus Christ in Old Saxon , alliterative verse , and like the story of a Pre-Christian Germanic tribal leader.
The Christian Year is a series of poems for all the Sundays and some other feasts of the liturgical year of the Church of England written by John Keble in 1827. The book is the source for several hymns. It was first published in 1827, and quickly became extremely popular. Though at first anonymous, its authorship soon became known, with the ...
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. In the assessment of Edward B. Irving Jr, "two masterpieces stand out of the mass of Anglo-Saxon ...
An Idyl of the South: An Epic Poem in Two Parts by Albery Allson Whitman (1901) Lahuta e Malcís by Gjergj Fishta (composed 1902–1937) Ural-batyr (Bashkirs oral tradition set in the written form by Mukhamedsha Burangulov in 1910) The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton (1911) Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa (composed 1913–1934)
Juvenile Pieces ; Poems Written in Youth: 1793 Lines 1789 Written while sailing in a boat at Evening "How richly glows the water's breast" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection; Poems Written in Youth: 1798 Remembrance of Collins 1789 Composed upon the Thames near Richmond "Glide gently, thus for ever glide," Juvenile Pieces ; Poems Written in ...
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Francis Junius was the first to credit Cædmon, the 7th century Anglo-Saxon religious poet, as the author of the manuscript. Junius was not alone in suggesting that Cædmon was the author of the manuscript, as many others noticed the “book’s collective contents strikingly resembled the body of work ascribed by Bede to the oral poet Cædmon” (Remley 264).