Word: beowulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month after graduation, she worked in Stern's Department Store. Then she got a job teaching at Manhattan's Todhunter school for girls. She taught Cavalier and Puritan poetry and early English literature, "with Beowulf tucked in." In seven years she became one of the best teachers the school had, and when she went on to Columbia for her degree (John Bigelow was written for her Ph.D. dissertation), she did so well that other teaching appointments began to come easy. She was the first woman in the history department of New York's City College, went next...
...mead to its American sweetheart, but the cup breathed less of May than of dollars. For the first time in 400 years, the English had turned to the manufacture of mead, a wine (fermented from honey) which was the drink of kings and commoners in England from Beowulf to Henry VIII.* At the village...
...explain why I am mentioning George Rinehart's "Boy Meets Girl" first. It is not the best item in Signature, nor is it the worst. But for awhile it gave me a hard time. I started to read: "Behold! For this is that of Beowulf, of Ecgtheow the son. May his hair grow long in heaven...
...happened to notice the title. "Boy Meets Girl." Then it occurred to me that in each of the story's four scenes a Boy had met a Girl, and I felt like Balboa. Which goes to show that one ought to read titles more carefully. "Boy Meets Girl" (From Beowulf to the Present) is clever, if weighty; whether the one attribute offsets the other will depend on the reader...
...always practice what he preached. These are some of the miscellaneous and disconnected facts about English literary history, which are about all most of the men who are taking English 1 will ever remember. This gigantic survey course, which attempts to cover all of English literature from Beowulf to Beerbohm, is required for all English concentrators and has been consistently criticized through the years as being exhausting, boring, and worthless...