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| Style | Iterative, vivid, harsh, curt, emphatic, ejaculative; as in all true Saxon poetry, whose genuine type is the war-song, where the verses fall like sword-strokes in the thick of battle. | |
| Rank | Never before had the English language clothed such sublime thoughts. Never had limitless desire so struggled , giant-like, with limited utterance. "Others after him," says Bede, "attempted, in the English nation, to compose religious poems, but none could ever compare with him." ... The prototype of Milton, as the picture exists in the sketch: the one, the rough draft; the other, the finished intellectual ideal ... The precursor of a new order of ideas, standing at the confluence of two civilizations; a monumental figure placed between two epochs and participating in their two characters, as a tream which, flowing between two different soils, is tinged by both their hues. | |
| Character | Cheerful and kind, able to obey or command; attentive and punctual
in the performance of duty; serious, eminently religious, and fond of prayer
... A moment, as old age closes upon him, he lifts the veil, and we see,
as we read, the charity, pathos, resignation, Norther melancholy, of the
man:
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| Influence | He draped the Oriental imagery of the Bible in the English fashion, and brought it within the comprehension of the humblest. His verses became part of the people's thinking, created for it a new groove, and the recollections of Valhalla paled before the more spiritual and real splendors of the New Elysium. He wrought no revolution in the form of English song, but introduced into it, through the faith of Christ, new realms of fancy. |
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