A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... early fourteenth century are more alert in style , and can be vivacious , gay , and charming . The Life of Saint Brandan , a translation from the French , introduced 1 F. Furnivall , Early English Poems and the Lives of the Saints ...
... early fourteenth century are more alert in style , and can be vivacious , gay , and charming . The Life of Saint Brandan , a translation from the French , introduced 1 F. Furnivall , Early English Poems and the Lives of the Saints ...
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... early French trouvères , sometimes followed by a short - line refrain , or in completely regular stanzas which ob ... Early English Text Society ( xliv ) . Ed . by Skeat for the Early English Text Society ( extra series , xxxi , xlvii ) ...
... early French trouvères , sometimes followed by a short - line refrain , or in completely regular stanzas which ob ... Early English Text Society ( xliv ) . Ed . by Skeat for the Early English Text Society ( extra series , xxxi , xlvii ) ...
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... earliest extant Eng- lish morality , The Castell of Perseverance1 ( early fifteenth century ) , the unchanging scene showed a castle in its centre , and in its corners scaffolds for the World , the Flesh , the Devil , and God . As the ...
... earliest extant Eng- lish morality , The Castell of Perseverance1 ( early fifteenth century ) , the unchanging scene showed a castle in its centre , and in its corners scaffolds for the World , the Flesh , the Devil , and God . As the ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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