A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... CHAUCER • CHAPTER V CHAUCER , LANGLAND , GOWER CHAPTER VI THE AFTERMATH OF CHAUCER IN ENGLAND Lydgate , Occleve - Minor Chaucerians - Hawes . 29 22 32 36 48 CHAPTER VII SCOTTISH POETRY 52 - The Beginnings - The Scottish Chaucerians ...
... CHAUCER • CHAPTER V CHAUCER , LANGLAND , GOWER CHAPTER VI THE AFTERMATH OF CHAUCER IN ENGLAND Lydgate , Occleve - Minor Chaucerians - Hawes . 29 22 32 36 48 CHAPTER VII SCOTTISH POETRY 52 - The Beginnings - The Scottish Chaucerians ...
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... Chaucer . The eleventh century saw the exhaus- tion of the old alliterative poetry , and it is of poetry , rather than of prose , that we have at this time mainly to think . Efforts , it is true , were made to preserve it and revive it ...
... Chaucer . The eleventh century saw the exhaus- tion of the old alliterative poetry , and it is of poetry , rather than of prose , that we have at this time mainly to think . Efforts , it is true , were made to preserve it and revive it ...
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... Chaucer's work possible ; for , though Chaucer owed little to it in direct inspiration , yet it had done something towards fitting the language for the purposes of literature . Without it , Chaucer might have written in French . He is ...
... Chaucer's work possible ; for , though Chaucer owed little to it in direct inspiration , yet it had done something towards fitting the language for the purposes of literature . Without it , Chaucer might have written in French . He is ...
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... Chaucer's early work . For a hundred years after the Conquest few books seem to English have been written in English ; the most notable are in Latin . Literature And when literature in the vernacular comes to life again 1066-1350 ...
... Chaucer's early work . For a hundred years after the Conquest few books seem to English have been written in English ; the most notable are in Latin . Literature And when literature in the vernacular comes to life again 1066-1350 ...
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... Chaucer appeared . Layamon's Brut , of which more will be said in the next section , was written about the same time as the Bestiary , and shows the same vacillation between two different prosodies . The Ormulum ( circa 1200 ) , so ...
... Chaucer appeared . Layamon's Brut , of which more will be said in the next section , was written about the same time as the Bestiary , and shows the same vacillation between two different prosodies . The Ormulum ( circa 1200 ) , so ...
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