A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... Popular CHAPTER VIII BALLADS AND LYRICS 66 CHAPTER IX MISCELLANEOUS PROSE - PECOCK TO MALORY 74 Lack of tradition in prose - Pecock , Capgrave , Caxton , Berners , Malory . CHAPTER X PAGE 78 BARCLAY AND SKELTON . CHAPTER XI.
... Popular CHAPTER VIII BALLADS AND LYRICS 66 CHAPTER IX MISCELLANEOUS PROSE - PECOCK TO MALORY 74 Lack of tradition in prose - Pecock , Capgrave , Caxton , Berners , Malory . CHAPTER X PAGE 78 BARCLAY AND SKELTON . CHAPTER XI.
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... popular term , Anglo - Saxon , poetry under two heads , pagan English and Christian , according as it finds its subjects in the legends Poetry . of Teutonic heathendom or , after the introduction of Chris- tianity , in biblical story ...
... popular term , Anglo - Saxon , poetry under two heads , pagan English and Christian , according as it finds its subjects in the legends Poetry . of Teutonic heathendom or , after the introduction of Chris- tianity , in biblical story ...
Sivu 4
... popularity of the old poetry , as , for example , in the 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 ...
... popularity of the old poetry , as , for example , in the 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 ...
Sivu 5
... popular when Beowulf was put into writing , and which drew its themes from the Bible story , as in Genesis , Exodus , Daniel , Christ and Satan ; from saints ' lives , as in Juliana , Elene , Andreas , Guthlac ; from the apocrypha , as ...
... popular when Beowulf was put into writing , and which drew its themes from the Bible story , as in Genesis , Exodus , Daniel , Christ and Satan ; from saints ' lives , as in Juliana , Elene , Andreas , Guthlac ; from the apocrypha , as ...
Sivu 13
... popular taste . They can hardly be said to be more in the main stream of literature than are the pub- lished sermons of to - day , although we have to remember that Chaucer made them respectable in one or two edifying verse - tales ...
... popular taste . They can hardly be said to be more in the main stream of literature than are the pub- lished sermons of to - day , although we have to remember that Chaucer made them respectable in one or two edifying verse - tales ...
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