A Manual of English Literature: And of the History of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest. With Numerous SpecimensGriffin, 1867 - 536 pagina's |
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Pagina 122
... Chaucer is still our first great poet , and the true father of our literature , properly so called . Compared with ... Chaucer . It will thus count an existence already of above five centuries . Chaucer is supposed to have been born ...
... Chaucer is still our first great poet , and the true father of our literature , properly so called . Compared with ... Chaucer . It will thus count an existence already of above five centuries . Chaucer is supposed to have been born ...
Pagina 133
... Chaucer , moreover , nowhere mentions Boccaccio as his original ; on the contrary , as Warton has him- self noticed , he professes to draw his materials , not from the works of any contemporary , but from " olde Stories , " and " olde ...
... Chaucer , moreover , nowhere mentions Boccaccio as his original ; on the contrary , as Warton has him- self noticed , he professes to draw his materials , not from the works of any contemporary , but from " olde Stories , " and " olde ...
Pagina 135
... Chaucer may not have even had Petrarch's translation before him ; for Petrarch , in his letter to Boccaccio , in which he states that he had translated it from the Decameron , only recently come into his hands , in- forms his friend ...
... Chaucer may not have even had Petrarch's translation before him ; for Petrarch , in his letter to Boccaccio , in which he states that he had translated it from the Decameron , only recently come into his hands , in- forms his friend ...
Inhoudsopgave
The Languages of Modern Europe | 1 |
The Celtic Languages and Literatures | 7 |
Original English commonly called Saxon or AngloSaxon | 15 |
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