The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... Poems . 73. Tennyson's Enoch Arden , etc. 74. Gray's Elegy ; Cowper's John Gilpin . 75. Scudder's George Washington . in . 125. Dryden's Palamon and Arcite . 126. Ruskin's King of the Golden River , etc. 127. Keats's Ode on a Grecian ...
... Poems . 73. Tennyson's Enoch Arden , etc. 74. Gray's Elegy ; Cowper's John Gilpin . 75. Scudder's George Washington . in . 125. Dryden's Palamon and Arcite . 126. Ruskin's King of the Golden River , etc. 127. Keats's Ode on a Grecian ...
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... poets who called him master . But he had only made a stage toward his burying - place , for he died October 25 , 1400 , aged some sixty years , and was buried in the north tran- sept of Westminster Abbey - first of the poets in the ...
... poets who called him master . But he had only made a stage toward his burying - place , for he died October 25 , 1400 , aged some sixty years , and was buried in the north tran- sept of Westminster Abbey - first of the poets in the ...
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... poem of the class , Le Roman de la Rose , -left unfinished by Guillaume de Lorris about 1237 , as a romantic and sentimental allegory , and finished about 1277 , by Jean de Meung , -the lover , falling asleep , sees as a satirical ...
... poem of the class , Le Roman de la Rose , -left unfinished by Guillaume de Lorris about 1237 , as a romantic and sentimental allegory , and finished about 1277 , by Jean de Meung , -the lover , falling asleep , sees as a satirical ...
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... poem of this style is Chaucer's Compleynt unto Pite . In it the poet complains that having appealed to Pity against ... poem the Boke of the Duchesse , written in the autumn or winter of 1369 , as a lament for the death of the Duchess ...
... poem of this style is Chaucer's Compleynt unto Pite . In it the poet complains that having appealed to Pity against ... poem the Boke of the Duchesse , written in the autumn or winter of 1369 , as a lament for the death of the Duchess ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer Frank Jewett Mather. He had learned from the French poets little except the art of writing graceful ... poems of this first period , with their excess of allegory and of decorative description , yield absolutely no hint ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Frank Jewett Mather. He had learned from the French poets little except the art of writing graceful ... poems of this first period , with their excess of allegory and of decorative description , yield absolutely no hint ...
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