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Page 141
... romance Troilus and Criseyde . Chaucer's wife probably died in 1387. During the 1390s he retained his favour at court , forming a close relationship with John of Gaunt's son the Earl of Derby , later Henry IV , and wrote his best ...
... romance Troilus and Criseyde . Chaucer's wife probably died in 1387. During the 1390s he retained his favour at court , forming a close relationship with John of Gaunt's son the Earl of Derby , later Henry IV , and wrote his best ...
Page 273
... romances were imitated al- most immediately by other French poets and were translated and adapted frequently during the next few centuries as the romance contin- ued to develop as a narrative form . Erec , for example , supplied some of ...
... romances were imitated al- most immediately by other French poets and were translated and adapted frequently during the next few centuries as the romance contin- ued to develop as a narrative form . Erec , for example , supplied some of ...
Page 548
... romance - that his financial situation became relatively secure . He was awarded a Civil List pension of £ 100 , and the American collector John Quinn began to buy his manuscripts- for what now seem ludicrously low prices . His novel ...
... romance - that his financial situation became relatively secure . He was awarded a Civil List pension of £ 100 , and the American collector John Quinn began to buy his manuscripts- for what now seem ludicrously low prices . His novel ...
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