The Phoenix (Old English Poem)

The Phoenix (Old English Poem)

The Phoenix is an anonymous Old English poem. It is composed of 677 lines and is for the most part a translation and adaptation of the Latin poem De Ave Phoenice attributed to Lactantius.

Read more about The Phoenix (Old English Poem):  Origins, Basic Plot, Relationship To Old English Christianity, Critical Assessment

Famous quotes containing the words phoenix and/or english:

    A victorious tomcat is like a tiger; a plucked phoenix is not worth a chicken.
    Chinese proverb.

    We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me
    why American men think that success is everything
    when they know that eighty percent of them are not
    going to succeed more than to just keep going and why
    if they are not why do they not keep on being
    interested in the things that interested them when
    they were college men and why American men different
    from English men do not get more interesting as they
    get older.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)