A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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Page 174
... popular verses , both ruder and more truly alive , which often cannot be localized or dated with any precision . They cannot all be claimed for the fifteenth century , for poems of the sort must have had an earlier beginning and ...
... popular verses , both ruder and more truly alive , which often cannot be localized or dated with any precision . They cannot all be claimed for the fifteenth century , for poems of the sort must have had an earlier beginning and ...
Page 195
... popular books written in their own language . He What is most remarkable , from the literary point of view , is the development of English prose for which Caxton , a mediocre writer , was responsible . French prose , of which he ...
... popular books written in their own language . He What is most remarkable , from the literary point of view , is the development of English prose for which Caxton , a mediocre writer , was responsible . French prose , of which he ...
Page 386
... popular performances of the mysteries , and therefore it was both new and a thing apart . It was subject to no influences except those of antiquity , and its appeal was to a select public of humanists and literates , with a due ...
... popular performances of the mysteries , and therefore it was both new and a thing apart . It was subject to no influences except those of antiquity , and its appeal was to a select public of humanists and literates , with a due ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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