A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... followed by a couplet - all of course in five - foot iambic measure . Surrey's new sonnet , a poem of different organization and effect from the Petrarchan form , was used by Shakespeare and is often referred to as the Shakespearean ...
... followed by a couplet - all of course in five - foot iambic measure . Surrey's new sonnet , a poem of different organization and effect from the Petrarchan form , was used by Shakespeare and is often referred to as the Shakespearean ...
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... followed by a flood of historical romances . In the year 1593 came Lodge's The Tragical Complaint of Elstred , Giles Fletcher's Rising to the Crown of Richard III , and Drayton's Piers Gaveston ( on a theme recently made popular by ...
... followed by a flood of historical romances . In the year 1593 came Lodge's The Tragical Complaint of Elstred , Giles Fletcher's Rising to the Crown of Richard III , and Drayton's Piers Gaveston ( on a theme recently made popular by ...
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... followed the Italians as well as the Greeks . Part of his theory of tragedy , an excellent interpretation of Aristotle , he seems to have borrowed from Minturno . In practice this means that Milton has followed the Greek custom of ...
... followed the Italians as well as the Greeks . Part of his theory of tragedy , an excellent interpretation of Aristotle , he seems to have borrowed from Minturno . In practice this means that Milton has followed the Greek custom of ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
Copyright | |
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