THE INFLUENCE OF CELTIC, ON ENGLISH LITERATURE
Earliest contact—Loan-words—Three periods of marked literary
influence—Layamon’s “Brut”—A fascinating study for critics—The
development of the Arthurian Romance—Sir Thomas Malory—Question
as to origin of rhyme—A Celtic claim—Elements in Scottish
poetry—in English literature—Gray’s “Bard”—Macpherson’s
“Ossian”—Influence on Wordsworth and his contemporaries—Moore’s
“Irish Melodies”—Sir Walter Scott—Tennyson—Interesting
comparison—Arnold, Shairp, Blackie—Novelists after Scott—Living
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