Main Currents of English Literature: A Brief Literary History of the English PeopleF.S. Crofts, 1934 - 526 pages |
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... writing The Faerie Queene , " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vir- tuous and gentle discipline . " Much prose writing of a formless sort went on : chapbooks containing all sorts of material , legendary or semi - historical ...
... writing The Faerie Queene , " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vir- tuous and gentle discipline . " Much prose writing of a formless sort went on : chapbooks containing all sorts of material , legendary or semi - historical ...
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... writing , little sketches in imitation of the classical master Theophrastus ; and diaries , like those which Pepys and Evelyn were later to indite , reveal an increased interest in the lives of men and a sober endeavor to take stock of ...
... writing , little sketches in imitation of the classical master Theophrastus ; and diaries , like those which Pepys and Evelyn were later to indite , reveal an increased interest in the lives of men and a sober endeavor to take stock of ...
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... writing will continue to commend his verse when the work of more subjective poets has faded into the dim past . His two odes , moreover , have retained their popularity among readers of poetry for their declamatory splendor . Dryden's ...
... writing will continue to commend his verse when the work of more subjective poets has faded into the dim past . His two odes , moreover , have retained their popularity among readers of poetry for their declamatory splendor . Dryden's ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD | 23 |
OLD AND NEW IN Conflict | 224 |
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