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... prose or poetry other than the Breton political prophesy , The Dialogue between Arthur and Guenglaff , found in a manuscript from about 1450 . Apart from a few fragments of poems , no early Breton literature has survived . The Mid- dle ...
... prose or poetry other than the Breton political prophesy , The Dialogue between Arthur and Guenglaff , found in a manuscript from about 1450 . Apart from a few fragments of poems , no early Breton literature has survived . The Mid- dle ...
Page 607
... prose style contrasted with that of the contemporary Rederijkers ( rhetoricians ) and served as a model to the great 17th - century Dutch writers . His book of songs Liedekens ( 1575 ) shows his determination to choose a form for the ...
... prose style contrasted with that of the contemporary Rederijkers ( rhetoricians ) and served as a model to the great 17th - century Dutch writers . His book of songs Liedekens ( 1575 ) shows his determination to choose a form for the ...
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... prose . From about 1350 , prose genres began to be cultivated , initially descriptions of the lives of saints ( hagiography ) and chronicles and then versions of popular medieval tales . More po- litical documents appeared near the end ...
... prose . From about 1350 , prose genres began to be cultivated , initially descriptions of the lives of saints ( hagiography ) and chronicles and then versions of popular medieval tales . More po- litical documents appeared near the end ...
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