Hawkshaw, Ann. Sonnets on Anglo—Saxon History. John Chapman, 1854.
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Edward the Confessor
Standard Name: Edward the Confessor
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cooper | Her selection runs from Edward the Confessor
to Samuel Daniel
. (The title-page mentions Gower
, Langland, and Chaucer.) For each poet she provides a short biography and a scholarly and critical preface. Her judgements... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Hawkshaw | The sonnets begin with the arrival of human beings on the lands that became Great Britain and wend their way through history, moving through treatments of the English kings including Alfred the Great
and Ethelred the Unready |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Hawkshaw | The sonnets suggest an ecumenical religious attitude, as in the opening to The Druids: Man's heart could listen then, as now, and hear / The voice of God that speaketh evermore. |
Timeline
25 December 1066
William of Normandy
assumed the throne of England after the death of Edward the Confessor
, and after defeating Harold
at the Battle of Hastings in Sussex.
Late twelfth century
A nun named Clemence
, who identified herself as living at Barking in Essex, composed an Old French, verselife of St Catherine of Alexandria
, taken from an elaborately literary Latin original.