Western Michigan University

Take a coffee break with MIP and Colin Ireland, author of The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry Before Bede

MIP: Hello everyone, and thank you for joining us for another coffee break with MIP. Our guest today is Colin Ireland, Resident Director, Emeritus, of Arcadia University, and we'll be talking about ...
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Nature in Old English Poetry

IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...
Western Michigan University

Spotlight on The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry Before Bede

The earliest vernacular literatures of medieval Western Europe were produced in Britain and Ireland in Old English, Gaelic, and Brittonic languages. Our Anglophone world privileges Old English ...
The Atlantic

The Cambridge History of English Literature

A HISTORY of English literature 1 in several large volumes, published under the auspices, and bearing the name, of Cambridge University, and edited in chief by the master of one of its oldest colleges ...