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Excerpt from Hand-Book of the Engrafted Words of the English Language, Embracing the Choice Gothic, Celtic, French, Latin, and Greek Words on the Basis of the Hand-Book of the Anglo-Saxon Root-Words Latin and Greek, is of great importance. A few words from this source were received in connection with the conquest of Britain by Caesar, 65 B. C. During the Christian anglo-saxon monarchs, many words were introduced. These referred to the affairs of the Church. A great accession took place at the revival of learning, or about the time of Henry the Eighth. Since this period, the learned have swelled the number to thousands. The work is still progressing. Classic words seem to have a charm for educated mind. Looking over the words from this source, we find that they refer to religion, law, arts, and sciences. These are the main elements of our language. Gentlemen, would you ask why we should study them? Why? Oh, it is pleasant to know our ancestry! It must be agreeable to be made acquainted with exotic words as well as exotic plants! Such knowledge is valuable. It is history and philosophy. Words are records, and form the true history of a people - their autobiography. Words are philosophy. Inquiring into their origin, uses, and changes, we see the visible workings of the soul: we trace the progress of a people in knowledge, manners, and the duties of life. More than this: studying them in groups under the leading divisions of thought, we have an Opportunity of seeing the character and civilization of the anglo-saxon, Gothic, Celtic, French, and Classic nations. Language is not made, but grows. The heart of a people is its mother-tongue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon in and by nineteenth-century poetry. Fossil Poetry takes its title from a famous passage on 'early' language in the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and uses the metaphor of the fossil to contextualize poetic Anglo-Saxonism within the developments that had been taking place in the fields of geology, palaeontology, and the evolutionary life sciences since James Hutton's apprehension of 'deep time' in his 1788 Theory of the Earth. Fossil Poetry argues that two, roughly consecutive phases of poetic Anglo-Saxonism took place over the course of the nineteenth century: firstly, a phase of 'constant roots' whereby Anglo-Saxon is constructed to resemble, and so to legitimize a tradition of English Romanticism conceived as essential and unchanging; secondly, a phase in which the strangeness of many of the 'extinct' philological forms of early English is acknowledged, and becomes concurrent with a desire to recover and recuperate the fossils of Anglo-Saxon within contemporary English poetry. The volume advances new readings of work by a variety of poets including Walter Scott, Henry Longfellow, William Wordsworth, William Barnes, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Morris, Alfred Tennyson, and Gerard Hopkins.