The Literature Book

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F rom the early 14th century, the cultural movement known as the Renaissance began to spread across Europe from the Italian city ...

humorous stories, such as François Rabelais’ satirical adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Miguel de Cervantes of Spain cont ...

62 I FOUND MYSELF WITHIN A SHADOWED FOREST THE DIVINE COMEDY (c.1308–1320), DANTE ALIGHIERI T he epic was the literary form of c ...

63 See also: Aeneid 40–41 ■ Odyssey 54 ■ The Faerie Queene 103 ■ The Lusiads 103 ■ Paradise Lost 103 ■ The Red Room 185 ■ The Wa ...

64 poem “Divine,” a reflection on its spiritual content as well as the extreme beauty of its style. Politics and poetry When Dan ...

65 When their journey to the bottom- most reaches of hell is complete, Dante and Virgil begin the ascent of Mount Purgatory, wit ...

66 WE THREE WILL SWEAR BROTHERHOOD AND UNITY OF AIMS AND SENTIMENTS ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS (14TH CENTURY), LUO GUANZHONG ...

67 Many editions of Romance of the Three Kingdoms were richly illustrated, which helped to make the text and stories accessible ...

68 TURN OVER THE LEEF AND CHESE ANOTHER TALE THE CANTERBURY TALES (c.1387–14 0 0), GEOFFREY CHAUCER T he use of an outer narrati ...

69 See also: One Thousand and One Nights 44–45 ■ The Decameron 102 ■ Wuthering Heights 132–37 ■ The Hound of the Baskervilles 20 ...

70 them. Pilgrimages were an everyday occurrence in medieval Europe, and Chaucer describes the pilgrims as “sondry folk,” people ...

71 during a particularly turbulent period. The Black Death of 1348–49 had killed a third of the population, the Peasant’s Revolt ...

72 LAUGHTER’S THE PROPERTY OF MAN. LIVE JOYFULLY GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL (1532–1564), FRANÇOIS RABELAIS I n the five-volume His ...

73 See also: The Decameron 102 ■ The Canterbury Tales 68–71 ■ Don Quixote 76–81 ■ Tristram Shandy 104 – 05 RENAISSANCE TO ENLIGH ...

74 See also: Gargantua and Pantagruel 72–73 ■ Miscellaneous Poems (Marvell) 91 ■ Les Fleurs du mal 165 ■ A Season in Hell 198–20 ...

75 See also: First Folio 82–89 ■ The Fairie Queene 103 T he drama produced in England during the reigns of Elizabeth I (1558–160 ...

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78 S traddling the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain’s Golden Century refers to an extraordinary flourishing of the arts that began ...