A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... whole story smacks of fabrication ; but a John de Mandeville does appear in the reign of Edward II of England - too early to fit well the Mandeville legend - and a Johan de Bourgoyne actually lived in England during the reign of the ...
... whole story smacks of fabrication ; but a John de Mandeville does appear in the reign of Edward II of England - too early to fit well the Mandeville legend - and a Johan de Bourgoyne actually lived in England during the reign of the ...
Page 143
... whole innocent . When the time comes , Gawain goes forth to the Green Chapel and meets the Green Knight , who makes him submit to the formidable ax . The Green Knight tests Gawain with a blow that barely nicks the skin of his neck ; and ...
... whole innocent . When the time comes , Gawain goes forth to the Green Chapel and meets the Green Knight , who makes him submit to the formidable ax . The Green Knight tests Gawain with a blow that barely nicks the skin of his neck ; and ...
Page 387
... whole Classical Age , ' wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new , as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn ' ( Spectator , no . 253 ) . Pope has described the genre in his lines on the ...
... whole Classical Age , ' wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new , as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn ' ( Spectator , no . 253 ) . Pope has described the genre in his lines on the ...
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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