Practical Modern English, Volume 3University of London Press, 1949 |
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... written in the fourteenth century . The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is one . It deals with the peoples and customs of certain other lands and is written as a book of travel . For a considerable time it was thought that the author was ...
... written in the fourteenth century . The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is one . It deals with the peoples and customs of certain other lands and is written as a book of travel . For a considerable time it was thought that the author was ...
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... writing . His best - known poems are A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea , and Hame , hame , hame . Thomas Campbell ( 1777-1844 ) , a Glasgow man , established a reputation as a poet when he was twenty - one with The Pleasures of Hope written ...
... writing . His best - known poems are A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea , and Hame , hame , hame . Thomas Campbell ( 1777-1844 ) , a Glasgow man , established a reputation as a poet when he was twenty - one with The Pleasures of Hope written ...
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... written . He also wrote Hypatia , a tale of the Roman Empire , and Hereward the Wake , a novel dealing with the struggle between the East Anglians and their Norman invaders . Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli ( 1804-1881 ) , who was ...
... written . He also wrote Hypatia , a tale of the Roman Empire , and Hereward the Wake , a novel dealing with the struggle between the East Anglians and their Norman invaders . Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli ( 1804-1881 ) , who was ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE ANGLOSAXONS | 9 |
THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND AFTER | 18 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY | 24 |
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