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Page 66
... Chaucer's own attitudes are concealed from sight behind those of a dramatised narrator , but Dryden's are not . Thus we relate the discussion of predestination in Chaucer's version to the special interests of the nun's priest - as also ...
... Chaucer's own attitudes are concealed from sight behind those of a dramatised narrator , but Dryden's are not . Thus we relate the discussion of predestination in Chaucer's version to the special interests of the nun's priest - as also ...
Page 71
... Chaucer . Indeed Dryden's method of embellishment frequently removes the edge of Chaucer's poem : coarse experience is made refined , and in so being loses much of its nature . When Dryden's Chanticleer escapes from the mouth of the fox ...
... Chaucer . Indeed Dryden's method of embellishment frequently removes the edge of Chaucer's poem : coarse experience is made refined , and in so being loses much of its nature . When Dryden's Chanticleer escapes from the mouth of the fox ...
Page 73
... Chaucer's ' digressions ' as portrayals not only of Chauntecleer but also of the nun's priest : he may have felt encouraged to a further and less warranted digressiveness . A third source may be the increased use of descriptio typical ...
... Chaucer's ' digressions ' as portrayals not only of Chauntecleer but also of the nun's priest : he may have felt encouraged to a further and less warranted digressiveness . A third source may be the increased use of descriptio typical ...
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