First Middle English Primer: Extracts From the Ancren Riwle and Ormulum; With Grammar and Glossary (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Sweet, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1527891372 ISBN 13: 9781527891371

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017

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Excerpt from First Middle English Primer: Extracts From the Ancren Riwle and Ormulum; With Grammar and Glossary

Of the literary ments of the Orrnulum little can be said, for it has none whatever. The author was, in fact, a spelling reformer and philologist who mistook his vocation. The Old E. Picturesqueness and power disappears entirely from his verse together with the traditional alliteration, and the only compensation is a dry, practical directness of style and metre which is anything but poetical. The only passage in our extracts that shows any trace of poetry is, perhaps, the description of the lamb (p.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1527891372
• ISBN 13: 9781527891371
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 130
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