English Literature

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) stillness, he falls asleep, while we hear in the sunshine the drowsy hum of ins ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) by advanced students. Those interested in the development of "transition" Engli ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) and these, next to the metrical romances, are the most inter- esting and signif ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) Far more poetical than the ballads, and more interesting even than the romances ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) France, which is still called Normandy, and rapidly adopted French civilization ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) ballads, like King Horn and the Robin Hood songs, which were the only poetry of ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) the story of the Norman Conquest. How did the Conquest affect the life and lite ...

CHAPTER III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) What part did Arthur play in the early history of Britain? How long did the st ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) THE NEW NATIONAL LIFE AND LITERATURE HISTORY OF THE PERIOD.Two great movements may be ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) Wyclif arouses the conscience of England; again it has the portentous rumble of an ap ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) to be seen abroad. Above all there is Chaucer,–scholar, trav- eler, business man, cou ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) words. Where the eye fails, the ear will often recognize the meaning. If eye and ear ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) tion. Of his education we know nothing, except that he was a great reader. His father ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) And hast y-maad thy rekeninges, In stede of reste and newe thinges, Thou gost hoom to ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) calls his "saveour doun in this werlde here." This poem called the king’s attention t ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) Hold the hye wey, and lat thy gost thee lede: And trouthe shal delivere, hit is no dr ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) monk, its verses beginning with the successive letters of the alphabet; and a number ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) virtues, whose emblem is the daisy; and behind them follow a troup of glorious women, ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) the year when "longen folk to goon on pilgrimages," Chaucer alights at the Tabard Inn ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) of these are incomplete, and others are taken from his ear- lier work to fill out the ...