Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Short History of English Literature
Harder must be the heart, bolder the Spirit, Greater must be our courage, as our strength grows less.
Inevitably, however, Christianity, with its refining, softening in?uence, encroached upon the traditions of pagan poetry. Stories from the Bible and episodes from the lives of the saints began to compete with stories from the heroic past.
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