Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Christian Remembrancer, Vol. 53: Quarterly Review; January-April, 1867
It was on this spot, so ca m and of a beauty so soft and tender, that in the year 1034: men laid the foundations of the great monastery of Bee. The fame of it grew up and ?ourished apace, and soon after the Italian Lanfranc was admitted within its walls, it rose to be the first establishment of its kind throughout the west of Europe. But into the long record of its renown it is not ours to enter. We follow but a single thread. We feel our way from age to age along only one slender line, and it is with Bec only so far as men wrote Latin verses within its walls, that we are here concerned. Who, then, in this a e, was the foremost of its poets?
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