Yet Milton's intention to write a great English poem was primary.

Several Old English poems are adaptations of late classical philosophical texts.

An anthology of Old English poems in prose translation (editor, translator).

Does this English poem give anything back to emergent Ireland or the Irish language?

Old English poems, which he translated into Latin.

Of his English poems, Scotland is internationally renowned, the third stanza being frequently quoted.

Ballad Society (founded 1868): published rare English poems and songs, especially folksongs.

Percy Society (founded 1840; dissolved 1852): published editions of rare English poems and songs.

It has been described as one of the most admired short vernacular English poems of the late Middle Ages.

He planned to commission 100 paintings illustrating famous English poems, which he would publish monthly as engravings between 1790 and 1795.