The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... Arcite . 126. Ruskin's King of the Golden River , etc. 127. Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn , etc. 128. Byron's Prisoner of Chillon , etc. 129. Plato's Judgment of Socrates . 130. Emerson's The Superlative , etc. 131. Emerson's Nature ...
... Arcite . 126. Ruskin's King of the Golden River , etc. 127. Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn , etc. 128. Byron's Prisoner of Chillon , etc. 129. Plato's Judgment of Socrates . 130. Emerson's The Superlative , etc. 131. Emerson's Nature ...
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... Arcite probably followed Troilus . Chaucer borrowed the rame of the hero and a portion of the narrative from La Teseide ; it is clear also that he intended to use freely the setting of Boccaccio's epic , for the poem ends abruptly with ...
... Arcite probably followed Troilus . Chaucer borrowed the rame of the hero and a portion of the narrative from La Teseide ; it is clear also that he intended to use freely the setting of Boccaccio's epic , for the poem ends abruptly with ...
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... Arcite mentioned in the Legende of Good Women was in all essentials the Knight's Tale as we have it . In treating of this poem by it- self we shall take up the details involved ; it is suffi- cient now to remind ourselves that in ...
... Arcite mentioned in the Legende of Good Women was in all essentials the Knight's Tale as we have it . In treating of this poem by it- self we shall take up the details involved ; it is suffi- cient now to remind ourselves that in ...
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... Arcite , the Lyf of Seynt Cecile , and others . The queen exacts of the erring poet reparation , not punish- ment ; and the god of Love gracefully consents . Chaucer here seeks to express his thanks and to make his excuse . The queen ...
... Arcite , the Lyf of Seynt Cecile , and others . The queen exacts of the erring poet reparation , not punish- ment ; and the god of Love gracefully consents . Chaucer here seeks to express his thanks and to make his excuse . The queen ...
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... Arcite could not better have suited the Knight , if it had been written for him in the first instance ; while the jolly Monk with his dolorous " tragedies " is an admirably comic figure , were not the joke unduly pro- longed . Yet this ...
... Arcite could not better have suited the Knight , if it had been written for him in the first instance ; while the jolly Monk with his dolorous " tragedies " is an admirably comic figure , were not the joke unduly pro- longed . Yet this ...
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