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... tone of medieval romance and indeed had an incalculable effect on all subsequent love literature ; let us first look at the subject matter of these works . The late twelfth - century trouvère Jean Bodel , in an often quoted couplet ...
... tone of medieval romance and indeed had an incalculable effect on all subsequent love literature ; let us first look at the subject matter of these works . The late twelfth - century trouvère Jean Bodel , in an often quoted couplet ...
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... tone : As gentle Shepherd in sweet eventide When ruddy Phoebus gins to welk in west , High on an hill , his flock to ... tone in The Faerie Queene . Spenser can shift through a much wider range of tones . Still confining ourselves to ...
... tone : As gentle Shepherd in sweet eventide When ruddy Phoebus gins to welk in west , High on an hill , his flock to ... tone in The Faerie Queene . Spenser can shift through a much wider range of tones . Still confining ourselves to ...
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... tone of the work : When the Funeral pyre was out , and the last valediction over , men took a lasting adieu of their interred Friends , little expecting the curiosity of fu- ture ages should comment upon their ashes , and , having no ...
... tone of the work : When the Funeral pyre was out , and the last valediction over , men took a lasting adieu of their interred Friends , little expecting the curiosity of fu- ture ages should comment upon their ashes , and , having no ...
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CHAPTER PAGE 1 ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE | 3 |
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THE VICTORIAN POETS 993 | 13 |
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