_Odyssey, The_, 24 Ohthere, 19, 20 _Orfeo, Sir_, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 117 _Ormulum_, 57, 58, 59, 151 Osborne, Dorothy, 81 Ovid, read by French poets, 72, 176 _Owl and the Nightingale, The_, 64, 133-6
_Parliament of Birds_, 181, 183 _Pearl_, 103, 143 Petrarch, 49, 65, 66, 75, 143 _Piers Plowman_, 30, 31, 45, 143, 144-9 Provençal poetry, 67, 68, 69
Reynard the Fox, 124-7 _Riddles_, Anglo-Saxon, 40 _Rime of Sir Thopas_, 79, 94, 96, 97, 103, 104, 168, 178 Robert of Brunne, 159 Robert of Gloucester, 158, 178 Robin Hood, 122 Roland, 51, 52, 53 _Roman d’Eneas_, 71, 73, 176 _Roman de Troie_, 51, 52, 53, 71, 105 Rome,’ ‘The Matter of, 50, 51 _Rood, Dream of the_, 36, 37 _Rose, Roman de la_, 139-43, 163, 166, 167, 171, 173 _Ruin, The_, 39, 44 Ruskin, 8, 9 Ruthwell verses, the, 37
_St. Cecilia, Life of_, 178, 179 _Saints, Lives of the_, 43, 159 _Salomon and Saturnus_, 40 Saxo Grammaticus, 28, 48, 66 Science, popular, 160 _Scottish Field, The_, 30 _Seafarer, The_, 39 _Seven Wise Masters of Rome_, 137, 167 Sidney, Sir Philip, 72 Sigfred (Sigurd, or Siegfried the Volsung), 21, 22, 27 _Sirith, Dame_, 127 _Soul’s Ward_, 157 Spenser, 65, 73, 75, 99, 139
Tacitus, 18 Thomas de Hales, Friar, 109 _Thopas, Rime of Sir_, 79, 94, 96, 97, 103, 104, 168, 178 _Tristrem, Sir_, 90, 94, 99, 100, 120 _Troilus and Criseyde_, 51, 168, 170, 181, 182, 186
Verse, Anglo-Saxon, 30-40 —later alliterative, 45, 46 —rhyming, 57, 58, 59, 79, 114, 115, 178, 179
Voltaire, 49 _Vox and the Wolf, The_, 124
_Waldere_, Anglo-Saxon poem, 16, 22, 29 _Wanderer, The_, 39, 44 Wayland Smith, 34 Welsh poet writing English, 114 _Widsith_, 22, 26, 33, 38, 119 _Wife’s Complaint, The_, 39 William of Malmesbury, 28, 44 _William of Palerne_ (or _William and the Werwolf_), 55, 105 William of Poitiers, 47, 48, 114 Wycliffe, 42
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