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Bede’s account of the abbess Hild and the poet Cædmon from the Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation (c. 731)
Wikipedia Article (includes comparison of the Old English, Bede's Latin, and a modern English version of the poem)
Bede's account of the poet Caedmon and Caedmon's Hymn (From Beowulf on Steorarume)
Study notes for Caemon's Hymn
Hypertext Edition
Middle English Period (1066-1450)
The Ballad
Poetry, Songs and Writers of Scotland
Sir Patrick Spens
About Sir Patrick Spens
Listen on Youtube
Modern Version
Edward, Edward
Modern Translation
Synopsis
Youtube Music Video
Another Video (must see/hear)
Get Up and Bar the Door
Modern Folk Song Version
Plot Analysis
Lyrics of three versions
There are many funny modern interpretations of this one,
most by high school students, on Youtube.
The Wife of Usher's Well
Story Line & Folk Connection
Youtube, Martin & Eliza (nice)
Medieval Estates, Chaucer, and Satire
Medieval Estates and Orders: The Rule of St. Benedict
St. Benedict, 480-547
The Rule of St. Benedict (pdf)
Poetry, Songs and Writers of Scotland
Sir Patrick Spens
About Sir Patrick Spens
Listen on Youtube
Modern Version
Edward, Edward
Modern Translation
Synopsis
Youtube Music Video
Another Video (must see/hear)
Get Up and Bar the Door
Modern Folk Song Version
Plot Analysis
Lyrics of three versions
There are many funny modern interpretations of this one,
most by high school students, on Youtube.
The Wife of Usher's Well
Story Line & Folk Connection
Youtube, Martin & Eliza (nice)
Medieval Estates, Chaucer, and Satire
Medieval Estates and Orders: The Rule of St. Benedict
St. Benedict, 480-547
The Rule of St. Benedict (pdf)
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur
The Lady of Shalott
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Sonnets
The Bible
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Elizabethan Drama - Shakespeare
King Lear
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The Bible
Elizabethan Prose - The Essay
Elizabethan Drama - Shakespeare
King Lear
Hamlet (Honors)
Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centures (1603-1780)
John Milton
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Paradise Lost
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The Restoration (1660-1688)
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Classicism and Neo-Classicism
Neo-Classic Poetry
Alexander Pope
Neo-Classic Prose - The Essay & Satire
The Age of Pope (1689-1740)
Classicism and Neo-Classicism
Neo-Classic Poetry
Alexander Pope
Neo-Classic Prose - The Essay & Satire
Transition from Classicism to Romanticism (1780-1798)
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Jane Austen
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
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Norton Glossary of Literary Terms
Prose and Poetry
of England
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Read Online
Read Online
A good retelling, by Geraldine McCaughrean, is available as a Puffin Classic, at amazon.com
Penquin Edition, Nevill Coghill