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... matter , of foreign modes ; and this is what , in the book , is termed ' experiment ' . Thus Chaucer , for all his command of native idiom , introduced a large number of novel verse forms into English and so left the door open for the ...
... matter , of foreign modes ; and this is what , in the book , is termed ' experiment ' . Thus Chaucer , for all his command of native idiom , introduced a large number of novel verse forms into English and so left the door open for the ...
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... matter , especially in the later passus , that texts A and B rather tend to spare us . But such matter is only important if we are interested in Langland rather than in Piers Plowman . And , as I hope to show later , the identity and ...
... matter , especially in the later passus , that texts A and B rather tend to spare us . But such matter is only important if we are interested in Langland rather than in Piers Plowman . And , as I hope to show later , the identity and ...
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... matter rendered it impossible for the poet to state his paradox directly . And it was more than personal idiosyncrasy that stopped him from making the attempt . It is true that Eliot was never much of a hand at telling a story . The ...
... matter rendered it impossible for the poet to state his paradox directly . And it was more than personal idiosyncrasy that stopped him from making the attempt . It is true that Eliot was never much of a hand at telling a story . The ...
Contents
Piers Plowman through Modern Eyes I | 1 |
Experimentalist Extraordinary | 30 |
Elizabethan Poetry | 69 |
Copyright | |
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