Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
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Page 60
... Chaucer's early work , the melancholy from which hardly any true poet seems able to escape ; but it is no deeper than the clouds in April , and the sense of the warmth and beauty of life pervades all he wrote . His ' May mornings ' are ...
... Chaucer's early work , the melancholy from which hardly any true poet seems able to escape ; but it is no deeper than the clouds in April , and the sense of the warmth and beauty of life pervades all he wrote . His ' May mornings ' are ...
Page 61
... Chaucer received from the king a grant of a pitcher of wine daily , which he subsequently commuted for an additional ... Chaucer's income during these years must have been very considerable ; but it is clear also that between his ...
... Chaucer received from the king a grant of a pitcher of wine daily , which he subsequently commuted for an additional ... Chaucer's income during these years must have been very considerable ; but it is clear also that between his ...
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... Chaucer wrote some or all of the series of balades , The Former Age , Fortune , Truth , Gentilesse , Lak of Stedfastnesse , which all owe something to the De Consolatione Philosophiae of Boethius . In the Truth , with its fine opening ...
... Chaucer wrote some or all of the series of balades , The Former Age , Fortune , Truth , Gentilesse , Lak of Stedfastnesse , which all owe something to the De Consolatione Philosophiae of Boethius . In the Truth , with its fine opening ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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