The Ruin
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"The Ruin of the Empire", or simply "The Ruin", is an elegy in Old English, written by an unknown author probably in the 8th or 9th century, and published in the 10th century in the Exeter Book, a lar
Roman pool (with associated modern superstructure) at Bath, England. The pool and Roman ruins may be the subject of the poem.
Bath, Somerset
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Bath is a city in Somerset, England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths. At the 2021 census, the population was 94,080. Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, 97 miles west of London an
The Ruin
…large collection of poems and riddles. The poem evokes the former glory of an unnamed ruined ancient city that some scholars have identified with modern Bath, juxtaposing the grand, lively past with the decaying present. The extant poem consists of forty-nine lines in the Exeter Book, on folios 123b-124b…
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