This little book makes no claim to be a history of pre-Conquest Literature. It is an attempt to increase the interest which Catholics may well feel in this part of the great 'inheritance of their fathers.' It is not meant to be a formal course of reading, but a sort of talk, as it were, about beautiful things said and sung in old days: things which to have learned to love is to have incurred a great and living debt.
The volume of Emily Hickey offers a wonderful presentation of ancient epic, poet
ry, and allegory--by the verses of Caedmon and Bede.
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