Great English Writers, Volume 1Oscar James Campbell, Hardin Craig, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Joseph Morris Thomas F. S. Crofts & Company, 1939 A chronological rearrangement, with many additions, of the material included in the editors' Great English poets and Great English prose writers. cf. Pref. |
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... Gawain and the Green Knight . Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is found in an important unique manuscript , a small quarto now in the Cotton collection at the British Mu- seum - Nero Ax . It contains also Pearl , Purity ( sometimes ...
... Gawain and the Green Knight . Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is found in an important unique manuscript , a small quarto now in the Cotton collection at the British Mu- seum - Nero Ax . It contains also Pearl , Purity ( sometimes ...
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... Gawain goes to the hero , Who boldly remains there , dismayed none the more . Then the knight in the green thus greeted Sir Gawain , " Let us state our agreement again ere pro- ceeding . And now first , sir knight , what your name is I ...
... Gawain goes to the hero , Who boldly remains there , dismayed none the more . Then the knight in the green thus greeted Sir Gawain , " Let us state our agreement again ere pro- ceeding . And now first , sir knight , what your name is I ...
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... Gawain with games . So they spent 990 The evening in the hall . The king for lights then sent , And taking leave of all To bed Sir Gawain went . On the morn when the Lord , as men all re- member , Was born , who would die for our doom ...
... Gawain with games . So they spent 990 The evening in the hall . The king for lights then sent , And taking leave of all To bed Sir Gawain went . On the morn when the Lord , as men all re- member , Was born , who would die for our doom ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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