A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... says : ' And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea ; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night , and made the sea dry land , and the waters were divided . ' Mr. Stopford Brooke praises what he calls ...
... says : ' And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea ; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night , and made the sea dry land , and the waters were divided . ' Mr. Stopford Brooke praises what he calls ...
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... says that he was ' a good honest man , but no poet . ' Drayton considered that he was ' too much historian in verse ' and that ' his manner better fitted prose . ' He was indeed , as will be seen , one of the best prose - writers of his ...
... says that he was ' a good honest man , but no poet . ' Drayton considered that he was ' too much historian in verse ' and that ' his manner better fitted prose . ' He was indeed , as will be seen , one of the best prose - writers of his ...
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... says . And so , when dealing later on with the poets , we shall choose a method more closely concerned with the history of doctrines , the examination of themes and of idiom than with the evaluation of verbal sonorities . In prose the ...
... says . And so , when dealing later on with the poets , we shall choose a method more closely concerned with the history of doctrines , the examination of themes and of idiom than with the evaluation of verbal sonorities . In prose the ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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