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... Poets : -Occleve ; Lydgate Scottish Poets : -Wynton ; James I .; Henryson ; Holland ; Henry the Minstrel First Half of the Sixteenth Century : -Colleges Founded . Classical Learning Prose Writers : -More ; Elyot ; Tyndal ; Cranmer ...
... Poets : -Occleve ; Lydgate Scottish Poets : -Wynton ; James I .; Henryson ; Holland ; Henry the Minstrel First Half of the Sixteenth Century : -Colleges Founded . Classical Learning Prose Writers : -More ; Elyot ; Tyndal ; Cranmer ...
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... Poetry and fiction , and whatever else belonged to the imaginative part of our nature , were abandoned altogether to the unlearned , to the makers of songs and lays for the people . It was probably fortunate for poetry , and the kindred ...
... Poetry and fiction , and whatever else belonged to the imaginative part of our nature , were abandoned altogether to the unlearned , to the makers of songs and lays for the people . It was probably fortunate for poetry , and the kindred ...
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... POETS - MAPES , ETC. Much Latin poetry was written in this age by Englishmen , some of it of a popular character . Warton enumerates Joannes Grammaticus , * Lawrence , prior of Durham , Robert Dun- stable , the historians Henry of ...
... POETS - MAPES , ETC. Much Latin poetry was written in this age by Englishmen , some of it of a popular character . Warton enumerates Joannes Grammaticus , * Lawrence , prior of Durham , Robert Dun- stable , the historians Henry of ...
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... poetry belonging to the latter part of the twelfth century which from their form and character may be supposed to ... poets and versifiers of the first century and a half after the Conquest . Among the most important are those of Guy ...
... poetry belonging to the latter part of the twelfth century which from their form and character may be supposed to ... poets and versifiers of the first century and a half after the Conquest . Among the most important are those of Guy ...
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... poets . He was an historian , an antiquary , a topographer , a divine , a philosopher , and a poet . His love of ... poetry better than history . * In his Preface Sir Richard seems to state that he had also reprinted the Itinerary ...
... poets . He was an historian , an antiquary , a topographer , a divine , a philosopher , and a poet . His love of ... poetry better than history . * In his Preface Sir Richard seems to state that he had also reprinted the Itinerary ...
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