Chaucer
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Chaucer is by Adolphus William Ward. The contents list names, among others, chapters on Chaucer's times and on the characteristics of Chaucer and of his poetry. The note says that the essay could not have been written at all without the aid of the Publications of the Chaucer Society.
The text says that from being a conquering power the English monarchy was fast sinking into an island which found it difficult to defend its own shores. The text quotes verse addressed to Adam Scrivener, in which the speaker wishes him the scall under his long locks if he does not copy the writing more true. The text says we may suppose Lydgate, a monk, to have scorned the maxim that a monk out of his cloister is like a fish out of water.
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- Author
- Adolphus William Ward
- Pages
- 133
- Language
- English
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- Literature
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