Showing posts with label Middle English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle English. Show all posts

Thursday, November 28, 2019

From Beowulf to Milton's Satan!

800 or so years in 16 or so weeks:
Literary Survey
and Vision-Quest (or so I hope)

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Middle English Lyric: "Foweles in the Frith"

Foweles in the frith,
The fisses in the flod,
And I mon waxe wod.
Mulch sorw I walke with
For beste of bon and blod.

--anonymous

from Middle English Lyrics:
A Norton Critical Edition,
selected and edited by M.S. Luria and R. L. Hoffman,
W.W. Norton: New York,
1974.