Masters of English LiteratureA.C. McClurg & Company, 1914 - 446 páginas |
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... England . It is a noble poem picturing the life of a crude race of fighters and feasters , lovers of the sea and of the vigorous life of adven- turers . Much later in time but placed in the same period are the names of Cædmon , Cynewulf ...
... England . It is a noble poem picturing the life of a crude race of fighters and feasters , lovers of the sea and of the vigorous life of adven- turers . Much later in time but placed in the same period are the names of Cædmon , Cynewulf ...
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... England did not use a homogeneous language . In addition to the many dialects of the common people there were the Anglo - Latin of the church and the Norman- French of the court . As London became the political and com- mercial center ...
... England did not use a homogeneous language . In addition to the many dialects of the common people there were the Anglo - Latin of the church and the Norman- French of the court . As London became the political and com- mercial center ...
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... England through the modernizing influence of Boileau and his school of critics . About the court buzzed the wits who complimented and amused the king . " Poetry . . . became gallant and social , and also personal and partisan ; and ...
... England through the modernizing influence of Boileau and his school of critics . About the court buzzed the wits who complimented and amused the king . " Poetry . . . became gallant and social , and also personal and partisan ; and ...
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... England he translated the Roman de la Rose , the most famous work in French at that time . Of this translation some 2000 lines remain . This work had a profound influence upon Chaucer and during its ascendency he wrote " ballads ...
... England he translated the Roman de la Rose , the most famous work in French at that time . Of this translation some 2000 lines remain . This work had a profound influence upon Chaucer and during its ascendency he wrote " ballads ...
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... England of Chaucer . - Chaucer's England , the England of more than five hundred years ago , in manners , customs , social usages , commerce , national activities , and national consciousness , was a very different England from that of ...
... England of Chaucer . - Chaucer's England , the England of more than five hundred years ago , in manners , customs , social usages , commerce , national activities , and national consciousness , was a very different England from that of ...
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