Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume 1Robert Chambers J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1856 - Authors, English |
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... Cædmon was a genius of the class headed by Burns , a poet of nature's making , sprung from the bosom of the common people , and little indebted to education . It appears that he at one time acted in the capacity of a cow - herd . The ...
... Cædmon was a genius of the class headed by Burns , a poet of nature's making , sprung from the bosom of the common people , and little indebted to education . It appears that he at one time acted in the capacity of a cow - herd . The ...
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... Cædmon . Sing the Creation , " was the reply , and thereupon Cædmon began to sing verses " which he had never heard before , " and which are said to have been as follows : - THE NORMAN POETS OF ENGLAND . The first literary productions.
... Cædmon . Sing the Creation , " was the reply , and thereupon Cædmon began to sing verses " which he had never heard before , " and which are said to have been as follows : - THE NORMAN POETS OF ENGLAND . The first literary productions.
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