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... beginning . Chaucer's death in 1400 coincided with a change in the structure of the language , and after him the art of poetry was more or less lost for a hundred and fifty years . When it was rediscovered it flowered marvelously in ...
... beginning . Chaucer's death in 1400 coincided with a change in the structure of the language , and after him the art of poetry was more or less lost for a hundred and fifty years . When it was rediscovered it flowered marvelously in ...
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... of imaginative writing . The most important work of prose fiction in English be- fore The Pilgrim's Progress was written more than a cen- 1 3 tury before the rise of Elizabethan drama . This was THE BEGINNINGS 7 THE BEGINNINGS.
... of imaginative writing . The most important work of prose fiction in English be- fore The Pilgrim's Progress was written more than a cen- 1 3 tury before the rise of Elizabethan drama . This was THE BEGINNINGS 7 THE BEGINNINGS.
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... beginning of the century , examples not quite of scientific interest in character but at least of attempts to define fairly precisely human types . An English edition of the Characters of the late Greek writer Theophrastus had appeared ...
... beginning of the century , examples not quite of scientific interest in character but at least of attempts to define fairly precisely human types . An English edition of the Characters of the late Greek writer Theophrastus had appeared ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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