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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1909. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... of oars--ovS' eirrjpi ipeTfid, rd re vTepa vrjvcrl irekovrai--" that are to ships as wings are to a bird." In his earlier period Chaucer had used manyother metres than the eight-syllabled couplet; he used several stanza-forms for continuous poetry, besides a profusion of lyric measures. To his central period, associated mainly with the rhymeroyal, belongs the invention and conquest of the heroic couplet. Palamon and Arcite may indeed have been remodelled later from an earlier version in stanzas, though to say that it was so remodelled is a mere assumption, but the Legend of Good Women shows the new metre in its perfection. In the Canterbury Tales, while the new verse is immensely preponderant, six stories are in other metres. It will be worth while going into this point a little more closely, both on its own account, and because it leads up to the larger question--how far the whole body of writing included in the Canterbury Tales is poetry, and what place that poetry holds in Chaucer's total poetic achievement. It is clear that the framework of the Canterbury Tales was planned out on a scale which allowed the inclusion of an enormous mass of material, and that its contents would be gradually filled up, in part by including or adapting tales already written, in part by writing fresh ones. In the Decameron there are a hundred novelle; and according to a passage in Chaucer's prologue, if the words are taken in their obvious meaning, the scheme of the Canterbury Tales would have included when complete no less than a hundred and sixteen. The original scheme was perhaps for tales not exceeding in length those in the Legend of Good Women, an average of rather under two hundred and fifty lines apiece. That, in fact, is just the length of the Prioress' and the M...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151517814
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115151781X
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr


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