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... poet of English life and character up to that time . It was probably about 1360 , at the age of twenty , that he began in earnest as a poet by undertaking an English version in octosyllabic couplets of the first part of the French Roman ...
... poet of English life and character up to that time . It was probably about 1360 , at the age of twenty , that he began in earnest as a poet by undertaking an English version in octosyllabic couplets of the first part of the French Roman ...
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... poet , again in a dream , finds himself in a building of glass which is discovered to be the temple of Venus , richly furnished with golden images and pictures telling the story of Æneas after the fall of Troy . An eagle ' that shoon ...
... poet , again in a dream , finds himself in a building of glass which is discovered to be the temple of Venus , richly furnished with golden images and pictures telling the story of Æneas after the fall of Troy . An eagle ' that shoon ...
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... poet has already in the early lines of the Prologue enabled us to judge of his readiness to fit in with a motley ... poets , he could make enchanting music from place - names ? Though quotability is not necessarily a guide to poetic ...
... poet has already in the early lines of the Prologue enabled us to judge of his readiness to fit in with a motley ... poets , he could make enchanting music from place - names ? Though quotability is not necessarily a guide to poetic ...
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UNTIL CHAUCER I | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE | 43 |
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