Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With Christianity came a softening influence, and though the war-like spirit did not for a long 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...
...number is entitled "A Few of Lowell's Letters" They were addressed to the art-critic and appreciator, Mr. W. J. Stillman. They are filled with clever things and a fascination which make them delightful reading and gives us an idea of of what Lowell, not the poet - but the companion - the friend - must have been...
...Contributor's Club, a writer discusses the question of the new Poet Laureate for England. His conclusion he states as follows...
...seems to me that there are only two English poets whose achievements entitle them to consideration, - Mr. Swinburne and Mr. William Morris. The latter, however, has turned anarchist, and is out of the question. Mr. Swinburne is a lyrical poet of the first order; ..... if the laureateship is not given to Mr. Swinburne, so much the worse for the laureateship...
...made Poet Laureate, and in the same year he published his "In Memoriam." and this poem has now come to mourners. We make no attempt to judge Tennyson, nor to give him his proper rank. We are, in the most serious sense, hero-worshippers before him. The more we read, the more must we admire at once his gentle loveliness, his subtle charm, his manly greatness, and above all, his pure and lofty tone of mind...