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Nine years after the start of the trojan wat, the Greek army sacks Chryse, a town allied with Troy. During the battle, the achaeans capture a pair of beautiful …
in 1453 Constantinople was taken by the Turks and many Greek scholars with their manuscripts fled into Italy where they began teaching their language and literature and especially the …
the new learning of the Renaissance had not as yet taken much hold in England upon the whole the productions of Caxton’s press were mostly of a kind that …
the 15th century was a barren period in English literary history it was nearly 200 years after Chaucer’s death before any poet came whose name can be written in …
in Chaucer’s earlier work such as the translation of the Rome and of the rose if that be his the book of the Duchess the Parliament of fowls the …
about the middle of the 14th century there was a revival of the Old English alliterative verse in romances like William in the werewolf and Sir Gawain and in …
about 1140 Geoffrey of Monmouth a Benedictine monk seemingly a Welsh descent who lived at the court of Henry the first and became afterward Bishop of st. Asaph produced …
the most noteworthy English document of the eleventh and twelfth centuries was the continuation of the anglo-saxon chronicle copies of these annals differing somewhat among themselves have been kept …
The Norman conquest of England in the 11th century made a break in the natural growth of the English language and literature. The Old English or English axon had …
D. H. Lawrence : Biography Herbert Lawrence was born at Eastwood, Nottinghamshir, on September 11, 1885. He was the fourth child of John Arthur Lawrence, a coal miner and …