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... Poetry : From Chaucer to Thomas Hardy , there has scarcely been a single great English poet of whom we cannot surmise that his style was to some degree influenced by the common speech he heard in field or street : . . . It is , of ...
... Poetry : From Chaucer to Thomas Hardy , there has scarcely been a single great English poet of whom we cannot surmise that his style was to some degree influenced by the common speech he heard in field or street : . . . It is , of ...
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... poets demonstrated in different ways that a literary language is always in some degree an artifact . Writers have ... poetry in his Poetria Nova , written in the second decade of the thirteenth century . His interpreter to English ...
... poets demonstrated in different ways that a literary language is always in some degree an artifact . Writers have ... poetry in his Poetria Nova , written in the second decade of the thirteenth century . His interpreter to English ...
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... poets like Hawes , as part of the attempt to Latinize the English tongue . Caxton's difficulty was not with dialect ; for he had wisely chosen that of London as the literary language in which his books would be printed ; it was to avoid ...
... poets like Hawes , as part of the attempt to Latinize the English tongue . Caxton's difficulty was not with dialect ; for he had wisely chosen that of London as the literary language in which his books would be printed ; it was to avoid ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
Introduction | 13 |
Social Strata and Levels of Communication | 21 |
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