Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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Page iv
... Chaucer . By Alfred William Pollard . William Caxton . By Alfred William Pollard . The English Bible . By Alfred William Pollard . Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature . By Edmund Gosse . 66 Edmund Spenser to the poem April , " page 298 ...
... Chaucer . By Alfred William Pollard . William Caxton . By Alfred William Pollard . The English Bible . By Alfred William Pollard . Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature . By Edmund Gosse . 66 Edmund Spenser to the poem April , " page 298 ...
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... Chaucer and Spenser , Shakespeare and Bacon , Raleigh and Ben Jonson , are theirs by inheritance as much as they are ours ; the migration across seas did not make Dryden or Pope , Addison or Steele , Johnson or Gibbon , alien to them ...
... Chaucer and Spenser , Shakespeare and Bacon , Raleigh and Ben Jonson , are theirs by inheritance as much as they are ours ; the migration across seas did not make Dryden or Pope , Addison or Steele , Johnson or Gibbon , alien to them ...
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... CHAUCER 59 THE SECULAR DRAMA JOHN GOWER 74 INTERLUDES CHAUCER'S SUCCESSORS 76 JOHN HEYWOOD HOCCLEVE 77 JOHN BALE NICHOLAS UDALL JOHN STOW WILLIAM HUNNIS ▾ WYATT ... SURREY.
... CHAUCER 59 THE SECULAR DRAMA JOHN GOWER 74 INTERLUDES CHAUCER'S SUCCESSORS 76 JOHN HEYWOOD HOCCLEVE 77 JOHN BALE NICHOLAS UDALL JOHN STOW WILLIAM HUNNIS ▾ WYATT ... SURREY.
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... CHAUCER 62 SIR THOMAS BROWNE • FROM MS . OF THE PRIORESSES TALE ' 73 THOMAS FULLER HOCCLEVE AND HENRY V. 77 JEREMY TAYLOR FROM THE WYCLIFITE BIBLE 88 IZAAK WALTON FROM CAXTON'S DICTES AND SAYENGIS ' 96 EDMUND WALLER SIR THOMAS MORE ...
... CHAUCER 62 SIR THOMAS BROWNE • FROM MS . OF THE PRIORESSES TALE ' 73 THOMAS FULLER HOCCLEVE AND HENRY V. 77 JEREMY TAYLOR FROM THE WYCLIFITE BIBLE 88 IZAAK WALTON FROM CAXTON'S DICTES AND SAYENGIS ' 96 EDMUND WALLER SIR THOMAS MORE ...
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... Chaucer was at work on his first original poem , the Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse . By 1370 Eng- lish had definitely triumphed over French , and the stream of English literature , original as well as translated , which flows steadily ...
... Chaucer was at work on his first original poem , the Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse . By 1370 Eng- lish had definitely triumphed over French , and the stream of English literature , original as well as translated , which flows steadily ...
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