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Mrs Dane's Defence

A: Henry Arthur Jones Pf: 1900, London Pb: 1900 G: Drama in ...

Jones, Henry Arthur

Jones, Henry Arthur (1851–1929)   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (3 ed.)

...Henry Arthur ( 1851–1929 ) British dramatist The Silver King ( 1882 ) Drama Saints and Sinners ( 1884 ) Drama Judah ( 1890 ) Drama The Case of Rebellious Susan ( 1894 ) Drama The Liars ( 1897 ) Drama Mrs Dane's Defence ( 1900 ) ...

England, Poetry of

England, Poetry of   Reference library

K. Davis, E. Johnson, E. H. Sagaser, J. Keith, E. Gray, and C. D. Blanton

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)

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2017
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Literature, Literary studies - poetry and poets
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...to weave northern Eur. hist. into the strands of universal hist., dominated by biblical Heb. genealogy and the ascendance of the Roman Empire. Despite its many fantastical elements, Beowulf is deeply grounded in hist.: it documents the military and territorial campaigns of the Danes, Swedes, and Geats; it describes Grendel as “kin of Cain,” thus incorporating its narrative into the sweep of biblical hist.; and it features ancestors who also appear in genealogies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and other historiographical texts. Together with more localized...

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