Word: cynewulf
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...life as it is lived by the landed gentry south of the Mason Dixon line. Many of her observations in "Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers" are shrewd, tart, and occasionally funny. But her quips, weighted as they are beneath a style which apparently goes back to Caedmon and Cynewulf for its model, have a difficult struggle to survive. They decorate but unfortunately do not obliterate the story, which is negligible and deals with a lady with the amorous sensibilities of a Belgian hare and a gentleman, her husband, who man ages to wander through the entire book without demonstrating...
...time die out, it took a milder course. Soon Northumbria took the lead in literature, and gave birth to one Caedmon, a monk in Whitby monastery, and the first true English poet. The other poets of this division of the Heptarchy were Aldhelm of Wessex, Bede, King Alfred and Cynewulf. Wessex took the lead in rose and produced King Alfred, St. Dunstan, and Abbots Wulfstan and Aelfric...
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