Books, poems, literature I read in 2020

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1. Beowulf
2. The wanderer
3. Milun by Marie de France
4. Lanval by Marie de France
5. Christ’s Humanity on Norton Antology
6. Middle English Incarnation and Cruxifiction Lyrics
7. Isaiah 63:2
8. The Dream of the Rood (if the tree where Christ was crucified spoke)
9. Piers of Plowman by William Langland
10. “Ye That Pasen” by the Weye by Herbert (spoken by Christ from the Cross to all his wayfarers. Similar speech with the mystery plays of the crucifixion)
11. “Sunset on Calvary” a tableau of Mary at the foot of the Cross, contains an implicit play of the English “sun” , which is setting, and the “son”, who is dying but, like the sun will rise again.
12. “I sing of a Maiden” visualizes the conception of Jesus in terms of a falling dew.
13. “Adam Lay Bound” cheerfully treats Ada sin as if it is a child’s theft of an apple, which had the happy result of making Mary the “queen” of heaven.
14. “The Corpus Cristi Carol” has the form of a lullaby but penetrates by stages to the heart of a mystery similar to the Holy Grail, the chalice that contained Christ’s blood., which continues to flow, as it does in this carol, for humanity’s salvation.
15. Paradise Lost
16. 30-minutes Grammar

2021
1. Severance — Ling Ma

2. America is in the Heart — Carlos Bulosan

3. Caste and Outcast — Dhan Gopal Mukerji

4. Letters of Abelard and Heloise

5. Lancelot, The Knight of the Cart , Yvain — Chretien de Troyes

6. Yonec