Sketch of English Literature with the Lives and Works of the Chief Authors |
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... allegorical forms . We know hardly anything of William the life of the author . Born about 1322 at Langland , Cleobury - Mortimer , in Shropshire , he was 1322-1400 . probably put to school at the priory at Great Malvern , and educated ...
... allegorical forms . We know hardly anything of William the life of the author . Born about 1322 at Langland , Cleobury - Mortimer , in Shropshire , he was 1322-1400 . probably put to school at the priory at Great Malvern , and educated ...
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... allegorical form . The poet speaks plainly of the evils of his day , and in the course of his long poem satirizes many classes , being specially severe on the clergy and the lawyers . Though Gower is a great advocate of clerical reform ...
... allegorical form . The poet speaks plainly of the evils of his day , and in the course of his long poem satirizes many classes , being specially severe on the clergy and the lawyers . Though Gower is a great advocate of clerical reform ...
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... allegorical power is undoubted . His Dance of the Deadly Sins shows great originality . The Golden Targe , an allegorical poem in which the shield of reason is exposed to the attacks of Love , and The Thistle and the Rose ( 1503 ) ...
... allegorical power is undoubted . His Dance of the Deadly Sins shows great originality . The Golden Targe , an allegorical poem in which the shield of reason is exposed to the attacks of Love , and The Thistle and the Rose ( 1503 ) ...
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