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Beowulf - 1 views

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    Images from the only known medieval manuscript of the epic saga of 'Beowulf', the most important surviving work of Anglo-Saxon poetry. The manuscript dates from the early 11th century, two generations before the Norman Conquest - though the poem itself is probably even older. Written in Old English, it tells of a thrilling struggle between the hero, Beowulf, and a bloodthirsty monster called Grendel.
Dana Huff

Life in 999: A Grim Struggle - TIME - 0 views

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    This article appears in the Holt Elements of Literature Sixth Course: Essentials of British and World Literature text alongside Beowulf and an excerpt from John Gardner's Grendel. It is a good companion piece for Beowulf.
Leslie Healey

What Fictional Fantasy Means: better libing through Beowulf - 13 views

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    one fo my all time favorite lit blogs--what's not to like about BETTER LIVING THROUGH BEOWULF?????? read it jsut for the sheer joy of recognizing another soul who finds his /her religion in literature
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    will I ever become a good typist? I'm running out of time!
Dana Huff

King Lear and Medicare Politics - 2 views

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    This article on the blog Better Living Through Beowulf might be an interesting way to connect King Lear to modern politics.
Leslie Healey

In a Fairy Castle, an Invitation to Life - 12 views

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    here are the questions that we want to reach in BritLit.........
Leslie Healey

Reading Literature, A Spiritual Practice - 0 views

  •  Do you want to get closer to God?  Settle down with a good book. McEntyre notes that, in the ancient practice of lectio di
  • It can change the way we listen to the most ordinary conversation. It can become a habit of mind. It can help us locate what is nourishing and helpful in any words that come our way—especially in what poet Matthew Arnold called “the best that has been thought and said”—and it can equip us with a personal repertoire of sentences, phrases, and single words that serve us as touchstones or talismans when we ne
  • “equipment for living
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    AMEN--you do not have to be a religious person to get this. Too often, I understand this idea, but forget to share it with my students. Reading as "equipment for living"
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