A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... story come from some Oriental story , or do the given story and the Oriental story go back to some other story , which antedates all the surviving stories ? Whatever the situation , there is no gainsaying the very ponderable ' matter of ...
... story come from some Oriental story , or do the given story and the Oriental story go back to some other story , which antedates all the surviving stories ? Whatever the situation , there is no gainsaying the very ponderable ' matter of ...
Page 85
... story come from some Oriental story , or do the given story and the Oriental story go back to some other story , which antedates all the surviving stories ? Whatever the situation , there is no gainsaying the very ponderable ' matter of ...
... story come from some Oriental story , or do the given story and the Oriental story go back to some other story , which antedates all the surviving stories ? Whatever the situation , there is no gainsaying the very ponderable ' matter of ...
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... story is the thing - the story and the characters that go with it . The message can take care of itself . In the various tales the poet gives us plenty of moral consideration ; but it is in the minds and on the lips of the Canterbury ...
... story is the thing - the story and the characters that go with it . The message can take care of itself . In the various tales the poet gives us plenty of moral consideration ; but it is in the minds and on the lips of the Canterbury ...
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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