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Page 24
... seems - reckless juxtaposition of persons in Chaucer's poetry constitutes a further challenge to readers conditioned by the naturalistic approaches of modern fiction and drama . He acknowledges no allegiance to the laws that now ...
... seems - reckless juxtaposition of persons in Chaucer's poetry constitutes a further challenge to readers conditioned by the naturalistic approaches of modern fiction and drama . He acknowledges no allegiance to the laws that now ...
Page 39
... seems unlikely that the conclu- sive " tiding , " which was to bring the vision to its climax , would have run counter to this story by enforcing a contra- dictory import : that the lost part of the dream would have cancelled the ...
... seems unlikely that the conclu- sive " tiding , " which was to bring the vision to its climax , would have run counter to this story by enforcing a contra- dictory import : that the lost part of the dream would have cancelled the ...
Page 65
... seem enough to justify such a lava - flow as the Merchant's Tale , and Chaucer seems to have felt the need of rationalizing it . The Merchant was the last man we should have expected to divulge his private affairs ; but why should he be ...
... seem enough to justify such a lava - flow as the Merchant's Tale , and Chaucer seems to have felt the need of rationalizing it . The Merchant was the last man we should have expected to divulge his private affairs ; but why should he be ...
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