A History of English Literature: From the beginnings to 1700. 2d edNaouka i Izkoustvo, 1970 - English literature |
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... prose chiefly appeals , and poetry is usually established as a literary form before prose is established at all ; and so in comparatively primitive cultures poetry often fulfils even those functions that are usually considered the ...
... prose chiefly appeals , and poetry is usually established as a literary form before prose is established at all ; and so in comparatively primitive cultures poetry often fulfils even those functions that are usually considered the ...
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... prose style . set a new standard for translations , superseding the heavier ornament- ation , and double - barrelled phrases of Werferth and his pupil Al- fred . The great master of Old English prose is however Athelwold's pupil Alfric ...
... prose style . set a new standard for translations , superseding the heavier ornament- ation , and double - barrelled phrases of Werferth and his pupil Al- fred . The great master of Old English prose is however Athelwold's pupil Alfric ...
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... Prose Passing from the poetry , whether lyrical or dramatic , of the late Eli- zabethan and Jacobean period to the prose is like passing from a sun- ny landscape into a narrow cutting . It is not that the writers were less talented ...
... Prose Passing from the poetry , whether lyrical or dramatic , of the late Eli- zabethan and Jacobean period to the prose is like passing from a sun- ny landscape into a narrow cutting . It is not that the writers were less talented ...
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