Word: saxonism
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...examination was thoroughly academic, covering English literature from the earliest Anglo-Saxon poetry down to Thomas Hardy, with only a few questions on William Shakespeare or the late 19th century writers. One question was to "show by an analysis of the content, style or diction of three of the following passages in what ways they are characteristic of their authors or of the times in which they were written." The passages were taken from William Langland, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, Lord Byron...
...Anglo-Saxon poetry and Mediaeval English literature, largely that of Chaucer, formed the material for the topics in the first division...
...message was countersigned by President-emeritus T. A. D. Jones. Lampwick is the Blue's stellar performer with the Anglo-Saxon idiom. "We're just an eensty bit glad," confessed "Speed" Copeland, Crimson draught-kicking mentor...
...entitled "The West in American Politics since 1865" and "New Points of View in American History" will be presented by S.J. Buck, visiting professor from the University of Minnesota. Professor M.Y. Hughes of the University of California is giving courses on "English Literature in the Sixteenth Century" and "Anglo-Saxon." Professor W.R. Mackenzie of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, will lecture on "Shakespeare" and "English Drama from Sheridan to Shaw...
...contrast to her earlier saga of the Jewish Matriarch's passionate assumption of power, Author Stern now tells the story of an Anglo-Saxon mother's fluttering desire, not for power, but for filial devotion, which is doled out to her spasmodically, and none too generously by a generation impatient of self-sacrifice. With wit and wisdom Miss Stern divides her sympathies, but indulges of course the side of radiant, reckless youth...