A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... romances , which was neither free from convention nor innocent of diffuseness and platitudes , but which made its own contribution of new graces . After the decasyllabic or alexandrine line came the line of eight syllables , and the ...
... romances , which was neither free from convention nor innocent of diffuseness and platitudes , but which made its own contribution of new graces . After the decasyllabic or alexandrine line came the line of eight syllables , and the ...
Page 88
... romances appeared in their English form towards the end of the thirteenth century . French chivalrous poetry was beginning to exhaust itself with repetition , and to give place to prose as a medium for reaching a public which had almost ...
... romances appeared in their English form towards the end of the thirteenth century . French chivalrous poetry was beginning to exhaust itself with repetition , and to give place to prose as a medium for reaching a public which had almost ...
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... romances he followed the example of the French of the fifteenth century . He thus ensured à longer survival and wider popularity to these romances , which he made accessible to all men . English , verse had hardly ever embellished them ...
... romances he followed the example of the French of the fifteenth century . He thus ensured à longer survival and wider popularity to these romances , which he made accessible to all men . English , verse had hardly ever embellished them ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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