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Christ in the winepress appears in the 14th century poetry of English Benedictine John Lydgate, [28] and the metaphor is used by two important English 17th-century poets. One of the best known poems of the Anglican Vicar George Herbert is The Agonie , included in The Temple (1633), where the second stanza (of three) is an extended conceit on ...
The poem refers to a group of people called the Wicinga cynn, which may be the earliest mention of the word "Viking" (lines 47, 59, 80). It closes with a brief comment on the importance and fame offered by poets like Widsith, with many pointed reminders of the munificent generosity offered to tale-singers by patrons "discerning of songs".
The word triptych was formed in English by compounding the prefix tri-with the word diptych. [2] Diptych is borrowed from the Latin diptycha, which itself is derived from the Late Greek δίπτυχα (díptycha) ' pair of writing tablets '. δίπτυχα is the neuter plural of δίπτυχος (díptychos) ' double-folded '. [3]
These two poems, along with Andreas and Guthlac (parts A and B), constitute the only versified saints' legends in the Old English vernacular. The Ascension ( Christ II ) is outside the umbrella of the other three works and is a vehement description of a devotional subject.
This poem marks the introduction into an English context of the classical pastoral, a mode of poetry that assumes an aristocratic audience with a certain kind of attitude to the land and peasants. The explorations of love found in the sonnets of William Shakespeare and the poetry of Walter Raleigh and others also implies a courtly audience.
The Old English poetry which has received the most attention deals with what has been termed the Germanic heroic past. Scholars suggest that Old English heroic poetry was handed down orally from generation to generation. [42] As Christianity began to appear, re-tellers often recast the tales of Christianity into the older heroic stories.
Set at Easter 1300, the poem describes the living poet's journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise. Throughout the poem, Dante refers to people and events from Classical and Biblical history and mythology, the history of Christianity, and the Europe of the Medieval period up to and including his own day. A knowledge of at least the most ...
Its value as a representation of Old English literature as well as the quality of the poem, simply as a poem, is called into question. The end rhyming is unlike the alliterative Old English poetry, which is the basis for most scholarly criticism. Bartlett Whiting refers to the Rime as having "a lack of technical merit," referring to the sudden ...