Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... Chaucer studied by the serious under- graduate Spenser was not the humorist whose naïve and genial common sense ... Chaucer's work ; he moved with the ease of strength and confidence , with that secure grace we call style , in which the ...
... Chaucer studied by the serious under- graduate Spenser was not the humorist whose naïve and genial common sense ... Chaucer's work ; he moved with the ease of strength and confidence , with that secure grace we call style , in which the ...
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... Chaucer's . Roman virtue was clear and decisive , and while it is the glory of Chaucer that he comprised all the categories into which the legal bias of the Middle Ages has divided the world , and all the variety of literature which ...
... Chaucer's . Roman virtue was clear and decisive , and while it is the glory of Chaucer that he comprised all the categories into which the legal bias of the Middle Ages has divided the world , and all the variety of literature which ...
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Selections Edmund Spenser William Lindsay Renwick. From HAZLITT'S Lecture On Chaucer and Spenser Lectures on the English Poets , 1818 SPENSER , as well as Chaucer , was engaged in active life ; but the genius of his poetry was not active ...
Selections Edmund Spenser William Lindsay Renwick. From HAZLITT'S Lecture On Chaucer and Spenser Lectures on the English Poets , 1818 SPENSER , as well as Chaucer , was engaged in active life ; but the genius of his poetry was not active ...
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