Limited to a few thousand lines of heroic verse in Anglo-Saxon as in the other Germanic dialects, we cannot say how frequently the kennings in Beowulf recurred in contemporary epic on the same soil.

Albert B. Lord suggests that the Homeric poems were dictated to a scribe by a minstrel who held in his mind the poems fully matured but did not himself possess the knowledge of writing since it would be useless to his guild, and Magoun argues that the Beowulf poet and Cynewulf may have dictated their verse in the same fashion.

Most intriguing in the many versions of the Beowulf FS is the transcription of alliterative verse.

The Old English epic poem Beowulf is written in alliterative Verse ( poetry ) | verse and paragraph s, not in lines or stanza s.

The Old English epic poem Beowulf is written in alliterative verse.

The Old English epic Beowulf, as well as most other Old English poetry, the Old High German Muspilli, the Old Saxon Heliand, and the Old Norse Poetic Edda all use alliterative verse.

He wrote alliterative verse in modern English, in the style of Old English alliterative verse ( he was one of the major Beowulf scholars of his time-see Beowulf: the monsters and the critics ).

A verse form close to that of Beowulf existed in runestones and in the Old Norse Eddas ; in Norse, it was called fornyrðislag, which means " past-words-made " or " way of ancient words ".

As far as we can tell from what has been preserved, the art of the scop was directed mostly towards epic poetry ; the surviving verse in Old English consists of the epic Beowulf, religious verse in epic formats such as the Dream of the Rood, heroic lays of battle, and stern meditations on mortality and the transience of earthly glory.

We do have some secular poetry ; in fact a great deal of medieval literature was written in verse, including the Old English epic Beowulf.

Accentual verse has been common in English poetry for as long as it has been recorded, with Old English poetry written in a special form of accentual verse termed alliterative verse, of which Beowulf is a notable example.

He published a translation of Beowulf in English and Latin verse ( 1814 ), but is particularly noted for his posthumously published 1826 Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry.

Arnold's works anticipate some of the themes of these later poets, while Hopkins drew inspiration from verse forms of Old English poetry such as Beowulf.

He published a translation of Beowulf in English and Latin verse ( 1814 ).

The city of Larissa is mentioned on Book II of Iliad by Homer in this verse:

During this period he started his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into blank verse, and his versions ( published in 1791 ) were the most significant English renderings of these epic poems since those of Alexander Pope earlier in the century, although later critics have faulted Cowper's Homer for being too much in the mold of John Milton.

Famous individuals connected with Edessa include: Jacob Baradaeus, the real chief of the Syriac Miaphysites known after him as Jacobites ; Stephen Bar Sudaïli, monk and pantheist, to whom was owing, in Palestine, the last crisis of Origenism in the 6th century ; Jacob, Bishop of Edessa, a fertile writer ( d. 708 ); Theophilus the Maronite, an astronomer, who translated into Syriac verse Homer's Iliad and Odyssey ; the anonymous author of the Chronicon Edessenum ( Chronicle of Edessa ), compiled in 540 ; the writer of the story of " The Man of God ", in the 5th century, which gave rise to the legend of St. Alexius, also known as Alexius of Rome ( because exiled Eastern monks brought his cult and bones to Rome in the 10th century ).

* a verse translation of the Iliad,

In 1616 George Chapman completed his monumental translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into English verse, which were the first ever complete translations of either poem, both central to the Western Canon, into the English language.

* Homer: The Iliad ; verse translation in selection, with introduction and notes ; engravings by John Buckland Wright ( Folio Society, 1950 )

The piece imitates Milton's verse, and the warfare is similar to that of the Iliad or Aeniad.

Another of Webbe's glees is Discord !, whose first movement is based on a passage from Iliad and whose second is based on a verse which, it is thought, he composed himself.

He has recently published a new verse translation of Homer's Iliad and is currently at work on the Odyssey.

** The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis ( Greek verse, composed 1924-1938 )

Homer's Odyssey also uses the hexameter verse throughout his poem.

Andronicus also translated Homer's Greek epic the Odyssey into an old type of Latin verse called Saturnian.

* Homer: The Odyssey ; verse translation in selection, with introduction and notes ; engravings by John Buckland Wright ( Folio Society, 1948 )

Some scholars argue that both his Undina and his Odyssey -- as long narrative works in verse — made a significant, albeit oblique contribution to the development of the 19th century Russian novel.

* Vedanta Spiritual Library-Sundara Kãnda: Hanuman's Odyssey in English verse

* The Odyssey ( verse adaptation after Homer )- First Produced 1999 Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London, UK

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

He dabbled in verse, could get along well among most of the European languages, and was fluent in French and German.

Metrically, Thomas's verse was extremely conventional, as was, incidentally, the verse of that other tragic enrage, Hart Crane.

Additionally, Sherr points out that this was the original third verse written by Bates:

Another verse was first recorded in Harriet Beecher Stowe's immensely influential 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

The poem was written in Sapphic stanzas, a verse form popularly associated with his compatriot, Sappho, but in which he too excelled, here paraphrased in English to suggest the same rhythms.

The latter manuscript was severely damaged in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the authorship of the verse has been much disputed ; but likely it also is by Alfred.

Ambroise ( flourished c. 1190 ) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L ' Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader.

A Life of Saint Ælfheah in prose and verse was written by a Canterbury monk named Osbern, at Lanfranc's request.

Rashi comments on this verse that " The entire people will be so imbued with the spirit of sanctity that God's Presence will rest upon them collectively, as if the congregation itself was the Ark of the Covenant.

Drama in English often used alexandrines before Marlowe and Shakespeare, by whom it was supplanted by iambic pentameter ( 5-foot verse ).

He was able to write a letter in exile, with no access to a copy of the Scriptures, and quote from memory every verse in the Old Testament with reference to the Trinity without missing any.

One of these was his De arte metrica, a discussion of the composition of Latin verse, drawing on previous grammarians work.

This Bragi was reckoned as the first skaldic poet, and was certainly the earliest skaldic poet then remembered by name whose verse survived in memory.