Caedmon's Song

Author: Ruth Ashby
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 0802852416
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
Long ago, when hardly anyone knew how to read or write, people recited stories by heart. They sat around the hearth at night, telling of heroes and monsters, great battles fought, and fortunes made and lost. On feast days, they passed the harp around the room so that everyone could sing a poem. But when the harp reached Caedmon, his thoughts dried up. He opened his mouth and nothing at all came out. It was embarrassing. No wonder he hated poetry. A quiet man who loved tending his cows, Caedmon couldn't recite poetry because he thought he had no stories to tell. Then after one especially upsetting experience, Caedmon stormed home, fell asleep in the barn, and began to dream. That night, everything changed for Caedmon . . . With jovial, heartwarming illustrations and beautifully illuminated letters, this tale is based on the true story of Caedmon, the seventh-century cowherd who became known as the first English poet.

Visible Song

Author: Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521375504
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
This book throws light on the debate about the 'orality' or 'literacy' of Old English verse, whether it was transmitted orally or written down.

The History of the English Church and People

Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780760765517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description

All Music Guide

Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879306274
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1508

Book Description
Arranged in sixteen musical categories, provides entries for twenty thousand releases from four thousand artists, and includes a history of each musical genre.

Stars Shall Bend Their Voices

Author: Jeffrey L. Johnson
Publisher: Orison Books
ISBN: 9781949039214
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
In ''Stars Shall Bend Their Voices,'' some of the most respected living poets meditate on the role of hymns and spiritual songs in their lives and writing. Representing many spiritual traditions and many approaches to personal spiritual practice, Stars Shall Bend Their Voices is a testament to the lasting impact of spiritual music on many of today's best poets.

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

The First Cut

Author: Dianne Emley
Publisher: Random House LLC
ISBN: 034548617X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
Detective Nan Vining is assigned to find the killer of a female L.A. cop whose body is found dumped in Pasadena, and draws on her deeply disturbing psychic visions to follow the trail of a vicious husband-and-wife killing team.

Why I Am Not a Calvinist

Author: Jerry L. Walls
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830832491
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Paying particular attention to the issue of God's sovereignty, Jerry L. Walls and Joseph R. Dongell critique biblical and theological weaknesses of Calvinist thought.

The Moore Bede

Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems

Author: Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000920933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365

Book Description
The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems (1942) contains the many verse texts, most of them short, which are scattered here and there in manuscripts not primarily devoted to Anglo-Saxon poetry. Some, like Battle of Maldon, are well-known, while others are less so. Each verse text is accompanied by an introduction, bibliography and extensive notes.