The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... French , Italian , and English . The French period ( be- fore 1373 ) . Chaucer began by imitating the French poems in favor at the English court . These poems had certain common qualities : first , they were frequently cast in the form ...
... French , Italian , and English . The French period ( be- fore 1373 ) . Chaucer began by imitating the French poems in favor at the English court . These poems had certain common qualities : first , they were frequently cast in the form ...
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... French style appear in his poem the Boke of the Duchesse , written in the autumn or winter of 1369 , as a lament for the death of the Duchess Blanche of Lancaster , wife of John of Gaunt . The poem is cast in the form of a dream , and ...
... French style appear in his poem the Boke of the Duchesse , written in the autumn or winter of 1369 , as a lament for the death of the Duchess Blanche of Lancaster , wife of John of Gaunt . The poem is cast in the form of a dream , and ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer Frank Jewett Mather. He had learned from the French poets little except the art of writing graceful verse ; in fact in this whole period he was on a side - track , and his real progress was to come only after retracing ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Frank Jewett Mather. He had learned from the French poets little except the art of writing graceful verse ; in fact in this whole period he was on a side - track , and his real progress was to come only after retracing ...
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... French poet , Guillaume de Machault . The firs stanza will serve as a specimen . " The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen , That was the king Priamus son of Troye , In lovinge , how his aventures fellen Fro wo to wele , and after out of ...
... French poet , Guillaume de Machault . The firs stanza will serve as a specimen . " The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen , That was the king Priamus son of Troye , In lovinge , how his aventures fellen Fro wo to wele , and after out of ...
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... French . a as in father , never as in flat . e long , often written ee , as the vowel in fate . e short , as in get . i , y , as the vowel in feet . o long , often written oo , as in abode . o short , as in son , but before gt as in ...
... French . a as in father , never as in flat . e long , often written ee , as the vowel in fate . e short , as in get . i , y , as the vowel in feet . o long , often written oo , as in abode . o short , as in son , but before gt as in ...
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Page 11 - Up-on his feet, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte; And this figure he added eek ther-to, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?
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Page 11 - Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace, That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace The wisdom of an heep of lerned men?
Page 7 - For sothe he was a worthy man with-alle, But sooth to seyn, I noot how men him calle. A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That un-to logik hadde longe y-go.