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... Chaucer to the Renaissance . Poetry : the alliter- ative tradition . The middle of the 14th century saw the beginning of a new fertility in the composition of long poems in an alliterative metre . Among the early group were very varied ...
... Chaucer to the Renaissance . Poetry : the alliter- ative tradition . The middle of the 14th century saw the beginning of a new fertility in the composition of long poems in an alliterative metre . Among the early group were very varied ...
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... Chaucer- ians The functions of. a great body of religious poetry . The prayers and songs were often rather formal ; the best were the simplest , perhaps the finest of all the famous " I syng of a mayden that is makeles . " This song was ...
... Chaucer- ians The functions of. a great body of religious poetry . The prayers and songs were often rather formal ; the best were the simplest , perhaps the finest of all the famous " I syng of a mayden that is makeles . " This song was ...
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... Chaucer an ideal of poetic utterance , a rhetoric or a diction , and metrical forms like the decasyllabic couplet . Nevertheless , this was only one influence among many ; others included the elements of satire and fantasy ( from ...
... Chaucer an ideal of poetic utterance , a rhetoric or a diction , and metrical forms like the decasyllabic couplet . Nevertheless , this was only one influence among many ; others included the elements of satire and fantasy ( from ...
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