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By the time of Chaucer ( c . 1340–1400 ) , this simpler English was the national language , flourishing in half a dozen regional forms , of which the East Midland dialect , as the speech of London , Oxford and Cambridge , was becoming ...
By the time of Chaucer ( c . 1340–1400 ) , this simpler English was the national language , flourishing in half a dozen regional forms , of which the East Midland dialect , as the speech of London , Oxford and Cambridge , was becoming ...
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But I think the modern reader should start with the Canterbury Tales and leave the earlier works till he can read Chaucer with facility . As already noted , he writes essentially in modern English , of which he is one of the founders .
But I think the modern reader should start with the Canterbury Tales and leave the earlier works till he can read Chaucer with facility . As already noted , he writes essentially in modern English , of which he is one of the founders .
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Then John Dryden ( 1631-1700 ) exposed an astonishing incapacity to understand how Chaucer should be read , though he did call attention to the characterization and the comprehensive view of humanity that mark the Canterbury Tales ...
Then John Dryden ( 1631-1700 ) exposed an astonishing incapacity to understand how Chaucer should be read , though he did call attention to the characterization and the comprehensive view of humanity that mark the Canterbury Tales ...
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What Literature has to offer | 1 |
Elizabethans and Others | 24 |
Reason and Reflection | 64 |
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| Titel | What to Read in English Literature |
| Författare | Denys Thompson |
| Utgivare | Rowman and Littlefield, 1975 |
| Original från | University of Michigan |
| Digitaliserad | 3 jan 2007 |
| ISBN | 0874717140, 9780874717143 |
| Längd | 154 sidor |
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