A People's History of English and American LiteratureWith special emphasis on literary merit, this book chronicles the literature of the great nations of Britain and America from their earliest origins to the twenty-first century. |
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... Italy , Chaucer's second period is filled with memories of Italy , though the French flavor remains . Borrowing from Filostrato [ The Love - Struck One ] , a poem by the great Italian writer Boccaccio , Chaucer wrote Troilus and ...
... Italy , Chaucer's second period is filled with memories of Italy , though the French flavor remains . Borrowing from Filostrato [ The Love - Struck One ] , a poem by the great Italian writer Boccaccio , Chaucer wrote Troilus and ...
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... Italy , at least as early as 1300 , in the work of such individuals as Dante , author of The Divine Comedy ( 1308-1321 ) ; Petrarch , the classical poet ; and Boccaccio , whose collection of medieval tales was to inspire hundreds of ...
... Italy , at least as early as 1300 , in the work of such individuals as Dante , author of The Divine Comedy ( 1308-1321 ) ; Petrarch , the classical poet ; and Boccaccio , whose collection of medieval tales was to inspire hundreds of ...
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... Italy 1976 Saul Bellow 1915- 1977 Vicente Aleixandre ( 1898-1984 ) 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer ( 1904-1991 ) 1979 Odysseus Elytis ( 1911-1996 ) 1980 Czeslaw Milosz 1911- 1981 Elias Canetti ( 1905-1994 ) 1982 Gabriel Garcia Márquez 1928 ...
... Italy 1976 Saul Bellow 1915- 1977 Vicente Aleixandre ( 1898-1984 ) 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer ( 1904-1991 ) 1979 Odysseus Elytis ( 1911-1996 ) 1980 Czeslaw Milosz 1911- 1981 Elias Canetti ( 1905-1994 ) 1982 Gabriel Garcia Márquez 1928 ...
Contents
The AngloSaxon or Old English Period 4501066 | 1 |
The Revival of Learning and the Renaissance 14851660 | 11 |
The Puritan Interlude 16401660 | 23 |
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