English Literature

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) how keenly and yet kindly our first modern poet observed his fellow-men. The characte ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) found it, and his originality consists in giving to an old story some present human i ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) O blisful light, of whiche the bemes clere Adorneth al the thridde hevene faire! O so ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) rather than by the eye. To the modern reader the lines ap- pear broken and uneven; bu ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) written at the beginning of this remarkable poem. Truth, sin- cerity, a direct and pr ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) sion, that of the "Field Full of Folk," the poet lies down on the Malvern Hills on a ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) I was wery, forwandred, and went me to reste Undur a brod banke, bi a bourne^78 side; ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) of pure English was established in the homes of the common people. As a suggestion of ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) About the year 1356 there appeared in England an extraor- dinary book called theVoyag ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) work in modern English having a distinctly literary style and flavor. Otherwise it is ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) SELECTIONS FOR READING. Chaucer’s Prologue, the Knight’s Tale, Nun’s Priest’s Tale, P ...

CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400) Tell briefly the story of Chaucer’s life. What foreign in- fluences are noticeable? ...

CHAPTER V. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING (1400-1550) HISTORY OF THE PERIOD POLITICAL CHANGES.The century and a half following the deat ...

CHAPTER V. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING (1400-1550) bent statue with head of pure silver was placed in Westmin- ster Abbey to commemo ...

CHAPTER V. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING (1400-1550) gle, to heights of national greatness, intellectually it moved forward with bewil ...

CHAPTER V. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING (1400-1550) eyes and seen." We shall understand this better if we remember that in the Middle ...

CHAPTER V. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING (1400-1550) LITERATURE OF THE REVIVAL The hundred and fifty years of the Revival period are s ...

CHAPTER V. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING (1400-1550) With the exception of Malory’sMorte d’Arthur(which is still mediæval in spirit) t ...

CHAPTER V. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING (1400-1550) the three great words, Liberty, Fraternity, Equality, which re- tained their insp ...

CHAPTER V. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING (1400-1550) own poems, but rather for his translation of two books of Vir- gil "in strange me ...