Sketch of English Literature with the Lives and Works of the Chief Authors |
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... shows the same improvement in construction and method of treatment on his early narrative work . The Parliament of Fowles ( about 1381 ) , again shows something of the influence of Boccaccio in treatment , though it returns to the ...
... shows the same improvement in construction and method of treatment on his early narrative work . The Parliament of Fowles ( about 1381 ) , again shows something of the influence of Boccaccio in treatment , though it returns to the ...
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... shows keen observation and much sense of humour in some of his poetic versions of “ Ćsop's Fables . " " The Uplandis Mous and the Burges Mous , " a story which has been so often related in literature , has never been better told than by ...
... shows keen observation and much sense of humour in some of his poetic versions of “ Ćsop's Fables . " " The Uplandis Mous and the Burges Mous , " a story which has been so often related in literature , has never been better told than by ...
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... shows that his aim is to get back to Nature and true life . The work at once secured to him a high place among the poets of the day , and would probably have gained him a permanent place at Court under the patronage of Leicester . But ...
... shows that his aim is to get back to Nature and true life . The work at once secured to him a high place among the poets of the day , and would probably have gained him a permanent place at Court under the patronage of Leicester . But ...
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