 | Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1888 - 170 страница
...poem — the poem a fragment of which we still possess. This, then, is the theory I would propound : The poem of Judith was composed, in or about the year...England, the pride, the hope, the darling of the nation. It may be objected that there is no proof of such popular enthusiasm and fervent piety as would be... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1892 - 568 страница
...forward an interesting suggestion with regard to the origin of the Judith.1 He thinks it was composed in gratitude for the deliverance of Wessex from the fury of the Northmen, and dedicated to Judith, the stepmother of jElfred, the great-granddaughter of Charles the... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1898 - 428 страница
...defeats, appear to have ceased, for eight years, to harry England, I suggested the provisional theory : ' The poem of Judith was composed, in or about the year...epithalamion, to the adopted daughter of England.' I ended my discussion with these words : ' This theory appears, better than any hitherto propounded,... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1899 - 406 страница
...writer of the Cynewulfian school. Professor Cook propounds the rather plausible theory that " the poem Judith was composed in or about the year 856 in gratitude...from the fury of the heathen Northmen, and dedicated to the adopted daughter of England, the pride, the hope, the darling of the nation." In the face of... | |
 | 1902 - 144 страница
...Alfred, and was composed in or about the year 856, in honor of Judith, the young wife of Ethelwulf, and in gratitude for the deliverance of Wessex from the fury of the heathen Northmen." As to the date of composition, also, there is wide difference of opinion. If composed by Csedmon, it... | |
 | 1901 - 926 страница
...ascribing it to Swithun, the Bishop of Winchester, who took Alfred to Rome, and he supposes it to have been composed " in or about the year 856, in gratitude...Northmen, and dedicated, at once as epinikion and epithalamium, to the adopted daughter of England, the pride, the hope, the darling of the nation."... | |
 | Herbert Pentin - 1908 - 134 страница
...Winchester) in or 1 Anglo-Saxon Reader (Clarendon Press). 2 Judith. By AS Cook (Heath & Co., Boston, USA). about the year 856 in gratitude for the deliverance of Wessex from the fury of the Northmen, and dedicated to the honour of the adopted daughter of England — Judith,1 wife of King... | |
 | Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie - 1953 - 400 страница
...ingenious suggestions have been made. Cook in 1888 presented at some length the hypothesis that the poem was "composed, in or about the year 856, in gratitude...Wessex from the fury of the heathen Northmen" and that it was dedicated to Judith, the second wife of King ¿Ethelwulf.23 Foster, accepting Cook's theory... | |
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Saxon poem," is amply justified by the available evidence. Of the author of JUDITH and the circumstances of composition we know nothing at all, but some ingenious suggestions have been made. Cook in 1888 presented at some length the hypothesis that the... 