Hawkshaw, Ann. Sonnets on Anglo—Saxon History. John Chapman, 1854.
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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. Hawkshaw, Ann. Sonnets on Anglo—Saxon History. John Chapman, 1854. 7 |