Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days

ISBN-13: 9781544660653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 66 str.

Emily Hickey

Opis

Both of these poets wrote in the language spoken in England before the period of French influence. That influence upon English at first seemed to be disastrous; the language became broken up and spoilt: but this was only for a time; and by and by, out of roughness and chaotic grammar there grew up a beautiful and stately speech meet for great poets to sing in, and great men and women to use. So it is that what for a time seems to be disastrous may one day be realised as benign and beautiful. This pre-Conquest language has to be learned as we learn a foreign tongue.