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The King Alfred Plan first appeared in Williams' 1967 novel, The Man Who Cried I Am, an account of the life and death of Richard Wright.In the afterword to later editions, Williams compares the King Alfred Plan to intelligence programs devised by J. Edgar Hoover in the 1960s to monitor the movements of black militants.
King Alfred is an epic poem by John Fitchett (died 1838) and completed by Robert Roscoe, published in 1841 and 1842. [1] It is currently the longest English poem. Overview
Frantzen has published introductory works intended for students, such as King Alfred (1986) [5] and ' Troilus and Criseyde': The Poem and the Frame (1993) on Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. [6] He also co-edited The Work of Work. Servitude, Slavery, and Labor in Medieval England (1994) with Douglas Moffat. [7] [8]
Alfred was the youngest son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and his wife Osburh. [5] According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire [a] ("which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly").
New digital editions, with manuscript images, of much of Old English biblical verse, including Junius 11 poems and metrical psalms and psalm excerpts, are available in the Old English Poetry in Facsimile Project, eds. Martin Foys, et al.(Madison, WI: Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, 2019-), with translations from the Old ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons is a 2013 documentary in three parts written and presented by ...
The Treaty of Wedmore [a] is a 9th century agreement between King Alfred the Great of Wessex and the Viking king, Guthrum the Old.The only contemporary reference to the treaty is that of a Welsh monk, Asser, in his biography of Alfred, known as Vita Ælfredi regis Angul Saxonum, or "The Life of King Alfred", in which Asser describes how after Guthrum's defeat at the Battle of Edington ...
The epic poem King Alfred was Fitchett's major life's work. He spent forty years researching and writing it. It was printed at Warrington for private circulation at intervals between 1808 and 1834, in five quarto volumes. It was cast in the form of a romantic epic poem, the subject being the life and times of King Alfred. He did not live to ...