The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... Boccaccio - in an atmosphere of greater poetry and nobler painting and sculpture Such influences than the Middle Ages had yet seen . could not fail to affect profoundly Chaucer's view of his own art . The impression of this first visit ...
... Boccaccio - in an atmosphere of greater poetry and nobler painting and sculpture Such influences than the Middle Ages had yet seen . could not fail to affect profoundly Chaucer's view of his own art . The impression of this first visit ...
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... Boccaccio both did much to spread the long- neglected study of the great Latin authors ; Petrarch , chiefly by precept , in his widely read letters ; Boccaccio , by example , in a series of Latin works on classical mythology , to which ...
... Boccaccio both did much to spread the long- neglected study of the great Latin authors ; Petrarch , chiefly by precept , in his widely read letters ; Boccaccio , by example , in a series of Latin works on classical mythology , to which ...
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... Boccaccio were now dead , but their fame had only grown ; and when Chaucer recrossed the Alps in the late summer of 1378 , one of his sumpter horses must have carried a volume of selections from Petrarch , and Boccaccio's great poems ...
... Boccaccio were now dead , but their fame had only grown ; and when Chaucer recrossed the Alps in the late summer of 1378 , one of his sumpter horses must have carried a volume of selections from Petrarch , and Boccaccio's great poems ...
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... Boccaccio : the rest is Chaucer's own . The story came to the Eng- lish poet as follows : Chriseyde remains in Troy as a hostage . Prince Troilus , hitherto a scoffer at love , falls desperately in love with her , and through the aid of ...
... Boccaccio : the rest is Chaucer's own . The story came to the Eng- lish poet as follows : Chriseyde remains in Troy as a hostage . Prince Troilus , hitherto a scoffer at love , falls desperately in love with her , and through the aid of ...
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... Boccaccio's epic , for the poem ends abruptly with the promise of a description of the temple of Mars , which we shall find later in the Knight's Tale . Nothing but the general outline of the story is suggested in the frag- ment left to ...
... Boccaccio's epic , for the poem ends abruptly with the promise of a description of the temple of Mars , which we shall find later in the Knight's Tale . Nothing but the general outline of the story is suggested in the frag- ment left to ...
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The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Frank Jewett Mather,Geoffrey Chaucer No preview available - 2016 |
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