A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... Italy . 6 It is impossible to assign exact dates to these poems : all that we are sure of is that they belong to a time between the seventh and tenth centuries , say , between A.D. 650 and 1000 . Two names only , those of Cædmon and ...
... Italy . 6 It is impossible to assign exact dates to these poems : all that we are sure of is that they belong to a time between the seventh and tenth centuries , say , between A.D. 650 and 1000 . Two names only , those of Cædmon and ...
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... Italian writers , he borrows the form of Italian verse only in one brief passage 1 - doubtless because the measures which he had independently perfected gave him full satis- faction . Cf. W. P. Ker , English Mediaeval Literature , p ...
... Italian writers , he borrows the form of Italian verse only in one brief passage 1 - doubtless because the measures which he had independently perfected gave him full satis- faction . Cf. W. P. Ker , English Mediaeval Literature , p ...
Sivu 37
... Italian influence was istics . strong , and the change is one not only of country , but of period and spirit ; for the Italian writer to whom he owes most , Giovanni Boccaccio , was a pioneer of the Renaissance and the new humanism . In ...
... Italian influence was istics . strong , and the change is one not only of country , but of period and spirit ; for the Italian writer to whom he owes most , Giovanni Boccaccio , was a pioneer of the Renaissance and the new humanism . In ...
Sivu 39
... Italy , and his visits quickened , if they did not kindle , the love of Italian literature which so profoundly affected his subsequent work and outlook . The first - born of that love is Troilus and Troilus Criseyde , in which he ...
... Italy , and his visits quickened , if they did not kindle , the love of Italian literature which so profoundly affected his subsequent work and outlook . The first - born of that love is Troilus and Troilus Criseyde , in which he ...
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... Italian humanism but Gower remained French to the end . It has been truly said 2 of him that he invented nothing in style or matter ' , and that the merit of his style is that it accomplishes in English what had been attained long ...
... Italian humanism but Gower remained French to the end . It has been truly said 2 of him that he invented nothing in style or matter ' , and that the merit of his style is that it accomplishes in English what had been attained long ...
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