A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... letter which Alcuin wrote in 797 to Conwulf , King of Mercia , 1 and , in a more indirect way , in the manner in which the new Christian poetry caught its spirit and imitated its phrases . Moreover , four centuries after the coming of ...
... letter which Alcuin wrote in 797 to Conwulf , King of Mercia , 1 and , in a more indirect way , in the manner in which the new Christian poetry caught its spirit and imitated its phrases . Moreover , four centuries after the coming of ...
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... letters in four poems , Crist , Juliana , Elene , and The Fates of the Apostles , while several others , such as Andreas , The Dream of the Rood , and The Phoenix , have been attributed to him , but on evidence not always very ...
... letters in four poems , Crist , Juliana , Elene , and The Fates of the Apostles , while several others , such as Andreas , The Dream of the Rood , and The Phoenix , have been attributed to him , but on evidence not always very ...
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... letters , who in 782 was summoned to the Continent by Charlemagne to direct the education of France . These writers - and they are only three out of many - also wrote vernacular prose and verse , but only their Latin works have survived ...
... letters , who in 782 was summoned to the Continent by Charlemagne to direct the education of France . These writers - and they are only three out of many - also wrote vernacular prose and verse , but only their Latin works have survived ...
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... Letter of Cupid by Occleve , The Praise of Peace by Gower , The Cuckoo and the Nightingale by Clanvowe , and La Belle Dame sans Merci by Sir Richard Ros . The authorship of other pieces remains uncertain , but is proved to be non ...
... Letter of Cupid by Occleve , The Praise of Peace by Gower , The Cuckoo and the Nightingale by Clanvowe , and La Belle Dame sans Merci by Sir Richard Ros . The authorship of other pieces remains uncertain , but is proved to be non ...
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... letter to Sir John Oldcastle , and several shorter poems , complete the tale of his work . Both Occleve's versification and his capacity for narrative are surer than Lydgate's , but such virtue is only relative , and we constantly find ...
... letter to Sir John Oldcastle , and several shorter poems , complete the tale of his work . Both Occleve's versification and his capacity for narrative are surer than Lydgate's , but such virtue is only relative , and we constantly find ...
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