A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... CLASSICAL INFLUENCE . COMEDY . - The first Eng- lish comedy of the classical school was Ralph Roister Doister , 1 written about 1533 by Nicholas Udall ( 1506-56 ) , head master successively of Eton and Westminster . Instead of making ...
... CLASSICAL INFLUENCE . COMEDY . - The first Eng- lish comedy of the classical school was Ralph Roister Doister , 1 written about 1533 by Nicholas Udall ( 1506-56 ) , head master successively of Eton and Westminster . Instead of making ...
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... classical ideal in literature . To study , in a broader sense , the elements out of which this unity is accomplished , those which consent to enter therein and those which refuse , is to study the classical age itself . From one point ...
... classical ideal in literature . To study , in a broader sense , the elements out of which this unity is accomplished , those which consent to enter therein and those which refuse , is to study the classical age itself . From one point ...
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... classical ideal by virtue of the truth , con- crete and therefore new and rich , of an object , even the most prosaic . His pastoral poem , The Shepherd's Week , claims to strike out boldly from the beaten path ; it mixes archaisms ...
... classical ideal by virtue of the truth , con- crete and therefore new and rich , of an object , even the most prosaic . His pastoral poem , The Shepherd's Week , claims to strike out boldly from the beaten path ; it mixes archaisms ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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