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51John Milton — For other people named John Milton, see John Milton (disambiguation). John Milton Portrait of John Milton in National Portrait Gallery, London c. 1629. Unknown artist (detail) Born 9 December 1608(1608 12 09) Bread Street …
52Pope, Alexander — born May 21, 1688, London, Eng. died May 30, 1744, Twickenham, near London English poet and satirist. A precocious boy precluded from formal education by his Roman Catholicism, Pope was mainly self educated. A deformity of the spine and other… …
53Widsith — (seventh century) Widsith is a 142 line OLD ENGLISH heroic poem preserved in the late 10th century manuscript called the EXETER BOOK.Most scholars believe that the poem predates the manuscript by hundreds of years, and is probably the oldest… …
54Beowulf — /bay euh woolf /, n. 1. (italics) an English alliterative epic poem, probably written in the early 8th century A.D. 2. the hero of this poem. * * * Heroic poem considered the highest achievement of Old English literature and the earliest European …
55Spenser, Edmund — born 1552/53, London, Eng. died Jan. 13, 1599, London English poet. Little is known for certain about his life before he entered the University of Cambridge. His first important publication, The Shepheardes Calender (1579), can be called the… …
56Italian Literature — • The modern language of Italy is naturally derived from Latin, a continuation and development of the Latin actually spoken among the inhabitants of the peninsula after the downfall of the Roman Empire Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006.… …
57Giacomo Leopardi — Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi Born June 29, 1798(1798 06 29) Recanat …
58Grendel (novel) — infobox Book | name = Grendel image caption = First edition 1971 cover author = John Gardner country = United States language = English cover artist = Anita Kunz genre = European Mythology Fantasy novel publisher = Alfred A. Knopf (USA) Gollancz… …
59Italian literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the Italian language that had its beginnings in the 13th century. Until that time nearly all literary work composed in the Middle Ages was written in Latin. Moreover, it was predominantly… …
60Portuguese literature — This is a survey of Portuguese literature.The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the Vulgar language (i.e. Vulgar Latin) spoken in the countries which formed part of the Roman Empire and, both in morphology and syntax, it represents …
