A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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Page 156
... appeared during the deplorable and humiliating reign of Richard II . But it came to pass that neither triumphs nor disasters could inspire literature . Miserly Nature created only imitators and reitera- tors of outworn themes . The ...
... appeared during the deplorable and humiliating reign of Richard II . But it came to pass that neither triumphs nor disasters could inspire literature . Miserly Nature created only imitators and reitera- tors of outworn themes . The ...
Page 269
... appeared in 1579 ; the first three books of The Faerie Queene in 1590 , the first six in 1596 ; his Complaintes in 1591 ; Colin Clout's Come Home Againe in 1595 ; the Amoretti and the Epithalamion in 1595 ; the Four Hymnes in 1596 ; the ...
... appeared in 1579 ; the first three books of The Faerie Queene in 1590 , the first six in 1596 ; his Complaintes in 1591 ; Colin Clout's Come Home Againe in 1595 ; the Amoretti and the Epithalamion in 1595 ; the Four Hymnes in 1596 ; the ...
Page 978
... appeared in 1791 . The Anti - Jacobin appeared from November 1798 to July 1799. Its chief founders were George Canning ( 1770-1827 ) , John Hookham Frere ( 1769- 1846 ) , and William Gifford ( 1756-1826 ) , the future editor of the ...
... appeared in 1791 . The Anti - Jacobin appeared from November 1798 to July 1799. Its chief founders were George Canning ( 1770-1827 ) , John Hookham Frere ( 1769- 1846 ) , and William Gifford ( 1756-1826 ) , the future editor of the ...
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ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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