Word: beowulf
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...their excellence of typography, and their fine presswork. "The Colophon, A Book Collectors Quarterly," in which each article is printed by a different printer, is one of the most interesting volumes shown. There are also several Rockwell items including: his "Book Plates," lithographs for a gorgeous edition of "Beowulf," and his classic edition of Voltaire's "Candide." A fine edition of Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" with illustrations by Donald McKay is also shown...
...pundit uttered the phrase last week at the Milwaukee meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, he stirred his hearers to academic enthusiasm. The "yea" in the Bible, said Supervisor of English Max John Herzberg of Newark's public schools, is the "yeah" of today. Beowulf or any other early Briton would have pronounced it in the same manner if not with the same irritating inflection. Also, said Supervisor Herzberg, the use of "them" for "those" is no modern practice. "Them" is an old Anglo-Saxon dative...
...student concentrating in English who intends to continue in the graduate field English 3a is an indispensable course provided, however, he follows it in the last half-year with English 3b, Mr. Kittredge's course in Beowulf. To conclude one's study of Old English with 3a is to parallel the almost proverbial observation about ending one's classical career with Caesar. It is an elementary course conducted at breakneck speed to enable the student to do considerable reading in the chronicles, leechdoms, and the amusing lives of the saints. Then there are occasional bright spots in the form...
...year's study covers the scope of English literature from Beowulf to Thomas Hardy, dealing with the general trends and characteristics of each phase in connection with its contemporary text. Lectures given by such men as Professors Kittredge, Lowes, Lake, Murray, and Greenough, bring the new student into closer contact with the department than is usually possible, while section meetings once a week provide opportunity for more detailed study. Occasional theses are required, but for these ample latitude is permitted...
...gone no farther than the Age of Chaucer, however, before he gives himself the lie. By his own statement the Old English period of Beowulf and the riddles possessed nothing which could be called humour. Even Chaucer's humour, as he points out, has little or nothing with the modern form. Modern humour, he says, "hardly came into its own till the Renaissance; prior to that time, the mental complexity which it requires was not very widely diffused...