Chaucer: Modern Essays in CriticismEdward Wagenknecht Oxford University Press, 1959 - 413 pages |
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Page 49
... whole generation . The campaigns ascribed to the knight form three groups . The first in order of time is probably the group composed of the siege of Algezir , the raids in Belmarye , and the mortal combats in the lists in Tramissene ...
... whole generation . The campaigns ascribed to the knight form three groups . The first in order of time is probably the group composed of the siege of Algezir , the raids in Belmarye , and the mortal combats in the lists in Tramissene ...
Page 133
... whole pattern which it is alleged to explain , it is rejected instantly . A direct and simple explanation of the ap- parently mysterious phrase has long been at hand . Skeat said that it probably came from ' an original which is now ...
... whole pattern which it is alleged to explain , it is rejected instantly . A direct and simple explanation of the ap- parently mysterious phrase has long been at hand . Skeat said that it probably came from ' an original which is now ...
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... whole of his effort on the character and directing his reader's whole attention to the same object . Mr. Tupper's tavern - ironies are irrelevant as well as improbable . Chau- cer saw sufficient irony in the spectacle of the Pardoner ...
... whole of his effort on the character and directing his reader's whole attention to the same object . Mr. Tupper's tavern - ironies are irrelevant as well as improbable . Chau- cer saw sufficient irony in the spectacle of the Pardoner ...
Contents
W H CLAWSON The Framework of The Canterbury Tales | 3 |
J R HULBERT Chaucers Pilgrims | 23 |
JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY A Knight Ther | 46 |
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