The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... 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 1373 ) . Chaucer began by imitating the French poems in favor at 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 1373 ) . Chaucer began by imitating the French poems in favor at the ...
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... style that had not before appeared in English literature . - Many features of this 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 ...
... style that had not before appeared in English literature . - Many features of this 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 ...
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... style , which their master early rejected . But we have yet to find the real Chaucer . The poems of this first period , with their excess of allegory and of decorative description , yield absolutely no hint of the poet's varied life in ...
... style , which their master early rejected . But we have yet to find the real Chaucer . The poems of this first period , with their excess of allegory and of decorative description , yield absolutely no hint of the poet's varied life in ...
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... style gained from the study of the Latin of the Silver Age . Quite aside from their more personal work , Petrarch and Boccaccio both did much to spread the long- neglected study of the great Latin authors ; Petrarch , chiefly by precept ...
... style gained from the study of the Latin of the Silver Age . Quite aside from their more personal work , Petrarch and Boccaccio both did much to spread the long- neglected study of the great Latin authors ; Petrarch , chiefly by precept ...
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... style . The book is cast in the form of a dia- logue between the prisoner and philosophy personified , and writ- The following analysis may ten in alternate prose and verse . be useful : - Book I. proves that lack of self - knowledge is ...
... style . The book is cast in the form of a dia- logue between the prisoner and philosophy personified , and writ- The following analysis may ten in alternate prose and verse . be useful : - Book I. proves that lack of self - knowledge is ...
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The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Frank Jewett Mather,Geoffrey Chaucer No preview available - 2016 |
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