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... literature of each period is judiciously related to the historical background and to the main currents in philos . ophy , religion , art , and social change so that the reader not only acquires a sense of the continuity of English ...
... literature of each period is judiciously related to the historical background and to the main currents in philos . ophy , religion , art , and social change so that the reader not only acquires a sense of the continuity of English ...
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... literature , but the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth , written in the third dec- ade of the twelfth century , provided a mine of material which was later to be fruitfully employed by poets and romancers . Geoffrey was ...
... literature , but the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth , written in the third dec- ade of the twelfth century , provided a mine of material which was later to be fruitfully employed by poets and romancers . Geoffrey was ...
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... literature . The point that chiefly concerns the historian of English literature in dealing with the Middle English period is that English literature , like most of the European literatures at this time , was in the French 50 MIDDLE ...
... literature . The point that chiefly concerns the historian of English literature in dealing with the Middle English period is that English literature , like most of the European literatures at this time , was in the French 50 MIDDLE ...
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CHAPTER PAGE 1 ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE | 3 |
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