Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to HerrickRosaline Orme Masson |
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... Italian poets . Dante died in 1321 , about twenty years after he had written his Divina Commedia . Petrarch lived till 1374 , Boccaccio till 1375. Chaucer's genius has made him solitary among the English writers of his own time , but it ...
... Italian poets . Dante died in 1321 , about twenty years after he had written his Divina Commedia . Petrarch lived till 1374 , Boccaccio till 1375. Chaucer's genius has made him solitary among the English writers of his own time , but it ...
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... Italian poets . If we examine a passage of Langland's verse , we shall find that what is called an alliterative line breaks up naturally into two parts or shorter lines . The break , suggesting a slight pause in the voice , is marked in ...
... Italian poets . If we examine a passage of Langland's verse , we shall find that what is called an alliterative line breaks up naturally into two parts or shorter lines . The break , suggesting a slight pause in the voice , is marked in ...
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... Italy , and were especially familiar with the writings of Boccaccio . Also , the poetry of Gower and Chaucer was wholly ideal and artistic , their aim being to delight the world rather than to inform or to correct it ; and they are , in ...
... Italy , and were especially familiar with the writings of Boccaccio . Also , the poetry of Gower and Chaucer was wholly ideal and artistic , their aim being to delight the world rather than to inform or to correct it ; and they are , in ...
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... Italy , Lydgate established himself as a Benedictine monk at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk . In his youth he was a friend and disciple of the aged Chaucer ; and he was about thirty years old when Chaucer died . The most important of his ...
... Italy , Lydgate established himself as a Benedictine monk at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk . In his youth he was a friend and disciple of the aged Chaucer ; and he was about thirty years old when Chaucer died . The most important of his ...
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... Italy , and in intercourse abroad and at home with foreigners and foreign books , Scottish students were brought into direct contact with the literature and culture of the continental cities . But it was chiefly from England that this ...
... Italy , and in intercourse abroad and at home with foreigners and foreign books , Scottish students were brought into direct contact with the literature and culture of the continental cities . But it was chiefly from England that this ...
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Page 329 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!