Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary StyleRoger Fowler |
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... Chaucer's writing evidence for his reading and use of a particular literary genre , the verse epistle . If the study begins in a narrow , descriptive channel , yet it is hoped that through the necessity of providing connexions between ...
... Chaucer's writing evidence for his reading and use of a particular literary genre , the verse epistle . If the study begins in a narrow , descriptive channel , yet it is hoped that through the necessity of providing connexions between ...
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... p . 487 ; G. L. Kittredge , MLN xxiv , p . 14 ff . 12 Cf. F. N. Robinson , The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer , Second Edition , ( London , 1957 ) , p . 863 . in Chaucer's imagery is not so much ' rust ' 161 Chaucer's Epistolary Style.
... p . 487 ; G. L. Kittredge , MLN xxiv , p . 14 ff . 12 Cf. F. N. Robinson , The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer , Second Edition , ( London , 1957 ) , p . 863 . in Chaucer's imagery is not so much ' rust ' 161 Chaucer's Epistolary Style.
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... Chaucer's lines is incomplete : As for me , my muse is rusting in its sheath . There was a time when this wasn't so , but all things pass away.15 Chaucer has been jestingly exposing and castigating Scogan for his failure to maintain ...
... Chaucer's lines is incomplete : As for me , my muse is rusting in its sheath . There was a time when this wasn't so , but all things pass away.15 Chaucer has been jestingly exposing and castigating Scogan for his failure to maintain ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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