Boccaccio in England: From Chaucer to Tennyson

514 Pages·2013·28.328 MB·English

by  Herbert G. Wright

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Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
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Beowulf to Pinter, and include works of literary theory as well as studies of specific
periods, writers or works. Authors include Herbert Grierson, Barbara Hardy,
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English Literary Criticism: Pre-1700
English Literary Criticism: 18th-19th Centuries
English Literary Criticism: 20th Century
Other titles available in English Literary Criticism: General Theory and
History include:
A Critical History of English Poetry, Herbert Grierson and J. C. Smith
Boccaccio in England: From Chaucer to Tennyson, Herbert G. Wright.
Fiction and the Fiction Industry, J. A. Sutherland
Librarianship and Literature: Essays in Honour of Jack Pafford, Edited by A. T. Milne
Tellers and Listeners: The Narrative Imagination, Barbara Hardy
The Advantage of Lyric: Essays on Feeling in Poetry, Barbara Hardy
The Appropriate Form: An Essay on the Novel, Barbara Hardy
The Fable as Literature, H. J. Blackham
The Making of the Modern Canon: Genesis and Crisis of a Literary Idea, Jan Gorak
The Story-shaped World: Fiction and Metaphysics, Some Variations on a Theme,
Brian Wicker
William Empson and the Philosophy of Literary Criticism, C. C. Norris
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From Chaucer to Tennyson
Herbert G. Wright
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BOCCACCIO IN ENGLAND
from Chaucer to Tennyson
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BOCCACCIO IN ENGLAND
from Chaucer to Tennyson
HERBERT G. WRIGHT
Professor Emeritus of the University- of Wales,
now of the University of Basle
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
THE ATHLONE PRESS
1957
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BRISTOL
To my Dear Wife
but for whom this book
would never have been
completed