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... Novel 265 Essayists of the Second Half 281 The Romantic Movement in English Poetry 303 VI . THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . 316 The New Poetry : Wordsworth , Coleridge . The Romantic Movement in Fiction : Scott The Revolutionary Poets : Byron ...
... Novel 265 Essayists of the Second Half 281 The Romantic Movement in English Poetry 303 VI . THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . 316 The New Poetry : Wordsworth , Coleridge . The Romantic Movement in Fiction : Scott The Revolutionary Poets : Byron ...
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... novel . Love and love's fickleness is the theme , and the characters of Troilus , Criseyde , and the wily , coarse - natured Pandar are developed with the finest art . Thus does the poem begin : - Chaucer's Allego- ries . " The double ...
... novel . Love and love's fickleness is the theme , and the characters of Troilus , Criseyde , and the wily , coarse - natured Pandar are developed with the finest art . Thus does the poem begin : - Chaucer's Allego- ries . " The double ...
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William Edward Simonds. was a graduate student at Oxford . It was a novel , as John Lyly , novels then went , entitled Euphues . The 1554-1606 . story is very slight ; it details the observa- tions and reflections of a young Athenian who ...
William Edward Simonds. was a graduate student at Oxford . It was a novel , as John Lyly , novels then went , entitled Euphues . The 1554-1606 . story is very slight ; it details the observa- tions and reflections of a young Athenian who ...
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... novel called The Unfortunate Traveller , or the Life of Jack Wilton ( 1594 ) . In his slight contri- butions to dramatic literature he employed the method of the satirist . Christo- pher Marlowe , 1564-93 . But by far the most ...
... novel called The Unfortunate Traveller , or the Life of Jack Wilton ( 1594 ) . In his slight contri- butions to dramatic literature he employed the method of the satirist . Christo- pher Marlowe , 1564-93 . But by far the most ...
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... . Young men scarce out of boy- hood embarked on hazardous ventures . Vast fortunes were squandered as recklessly as they had been gath- ered . Men as well as women wore rich and striking costumes . Novel luxuries found their way into use .
... . Young men scarce out of boy- hood embarked on hazardous ventures . Vast fortunes were squandered as recklessly as they had been gath- ered . Men as well as women wore rich and striking costumes . Novel luxuries found their way into use .
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