A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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Page 169
... hand , Dunbar is capable of realistic characterizations of the broadest sort , as in The Twa Marit Wemen and the Wedo , which is as unabashed as the Prologue to Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale . Court poet though he may have been , Dunbar ...
... hand , Dunbar is capable of realistic characterizations of the broadest sort , as in The Twa Marit Wemen and the Wedo , which is as unabashed as the Prologue to Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale . Court poet though he may have been , Dunbar ...
Page 279
... hand . But the spirit of the work is not like Marston . It is clever and not mordant . Jonson in his Poetaster had satirized Dekker and Marston under the names of Crispinus and Demetrius , Jonson himself being Horace . Dekker brings the ...
... hand . But the spirit of the work is not like Marston . It is clever and not mordant . Jonson in his Poetaster had satirized Dekker and Marston under the names of Crispinus and Demetrius , Jonson himself being Horace . Dekker brings the ...
Page 564
... Hand of Ethelberta , A Laodicean ) . But his finest effects were had in the settings and ways of life that had ... hand in hand with the more systematic determinism of an age of science . Tragedy was his forte . It early ap- peared in ...
... Hand of Ethelberta , A Laodicean ) . But his finest effects were had in the settings and ways of life that had ... hand in hand with the more systematic determinism of an age of science . Tragedy was his forte . It early ap- peared in ...
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 |
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