A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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Page 90
... popular sources , made his ballad under the inherited influence of the method described , and gave it to the folk as soon as he had made it and provided , moreover , the folk accepted the gift and subjected it to that course of oral ...
... popular sources , made his ballad under the inherited influence of the method described , and gave it to the folk as soon as he had made it and provided , moreover , the folk accepted the gift and subjected it to that course of oral ...
Page 211
... popular works of hundreds of years of age were still commonly known in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . " On the more formal side of the trends of popular literature Greene , when he turned from euphuistic fiction to pamphleteering ...
... popular works of hundreds of years of age were still commonly known in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . " On the more formal side of the trends of popular literature Greene , when he turned from euphuistic fiction to pamphleteering ...
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... popular and so fully representative of popular taste , interest , and aspiration . The man who succeeded . in making himself the voice of an Empire in its self - conscious pride , its sense of mission and obligation , its genius for war ...
... popular and so fully representative of popular taste , interest , and aspiration . The man who succeeded . in making himself the voice of an Empire in its self - conscious pride , its sense of mission and obligation , its genius for war ...
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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