English LiteratureScott, Foresman, 1905 - 452 pages A textbook for English Literature covering the Old, Middle, and Modern English Periods. Also contains notes and chronology charts on both principal and minor authors. |
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... tale are hard to find in the lore of the continental peoples . It came out of the darkness " Beowulf , " and almost returned to the darkness whence it came . For nearly a thousand years it lay virtually buried , while English literature ...
... tale are hard to find in the lore of the continental peoples . It came out of the darkness " Beowulf , " and almost returned to the darkness whence it came . For nearly a thousand years it lay virtually buried , while English literature ...
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... tales even yet , and fairies so bold as to play their pranks in the heart of modern London . * Thus in the strains of a nation's poetry no less than in the sounds of its speech or the complexions of its people , are descent and kinship ...
... tales even yet , and fairies so bold as to play their pranks in the heart of modern London . * Thus in the strains of a nation's poetry no less than in the sounds of its speech or the complexions of its people , are descent and kinship ...
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... tales . The ancient prophecies of Merlin ; the stories of Tristran and of Launcelot of the Lake ; and finally , even the Christian legend of the Quest of the Holy Grail , the cup with which Christ celebrated the Last Supper were woven ...
... tales . The ancient prophecies of Merlin ; the stories of Tristran and of Launcelot of the Lake ; and finally , even the Christian legend of the Quest of the Holy Grail , the cup with which Christ celebrated the Last Supper were woven ...
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... tales and versified ro- mances which the Cursor Mundi was meant to supplant , and with which the literature of the thirteenth century Romances . abounded . In the main these reveal French influence in subject , spirit , and form ; that ...
... tales and versified ro- mances which the Cursor Mundi was meant to supplant , and with which the literature of the thirteenth century Romances . abounded . In the main these reveal French influence in subject , spirit , and form ; that ...
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... tales in illustration of the passion of love . These tales , of course , were meant to furnish the " play . " But Gower was too old and garrulous , and of a wit too heavy , to com- pete with Chaucer in this vein . He might have done ...
... tales in illustration of the passion of love . These tales , of course , were meant to furnish the " play . " But Gower was too old and garrulous , and of a wit too heavy , to com- pete with Chaucer in this vein . He might have done ...
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