The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... Italy ( see Mod . Lang . Notes , xi , 210ff . ) , and the text brought into confor mity with the new date . ( b ) Under 1399 , Chaucer's additiona pension from Henry IV . not " four " but foustoon done vi In 1359 we find him a soldier ...
... Italy ( see Mod . Lang . Notes , xi , 210ff . ) , and the text brought into confor mity with the new date . ( b ) Under 1399 , Chaucer's additiona pension from Henry IV . not " four " but foustoon done vi In 1359 we find him a soldier ...
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... Italy of Petrarch and Boccaccio - in an atmosphere of greater poetry and nobler painting and sculpture Such ... Italian mission he received a grant of a pitcher of wine daily from the king's pan- try . This gift the poet , like a ...
... Italy of Petrarch and Boccaccio - in an atmosphere of greater poetry and nobler painting and sculpture Such ... Italian mission he received a grant of a pitcher of wine daily from the king's pan- try . This gift the poet , like a ...
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... Italian literature before attaining , when quite in middle life , the style most congenial to his nature . Accordingly , we divide his literary life into three periods , the French , Italian , and English . The French period ( be- fore ...
... Italian literature before attaining , when quite in middle life , the style most congenial to his nature . Accordingly , we divide his literary life into three periods , the French , Italian , and English . The French period ( be- fore ...
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... Italian period ( 1373 or 1378-1385 ) . most impresssionable years ; and yet this visit marks the beginning of a new attitude toward let- ters and toward life . Italy was the one country of that time in which really great literature had ...
... Italian period ( 1373 or 1378-1385 ) . most impresssionable years ; and yet this visit marks the beginning of a new attitude toward let- ters and toward life . Italy was the one country of that time in which really great literature had ...
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... Italy's greatest poet . Already in The Life of Saint Cecilia , a poem written shortly after the first Italian journey , an invocation to the Virgin freely rendered from Paradiso xxxiii . appears ; and an occasional phrase or simile in ...
... Italy's greatest poet . Already in The Life of Saint Cecilia , a poem written shortly after the first Italian journey , an invocation to the Virgin freely rendered from Paradiso xxxiii . appears ; and an occasional phrase or simile in ...
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