id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 11618 Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors .txt text/plain 96092 5885 77 English alliterative verse in romances like _William and the Werewolf_, a man of business as well as books, and he loved men and nature no less Chaucer is the bright consummate flower of the English Middle Age. Like rich and tender love song, the best specimen of court poetry between the early, though not very good, examples of English prose in a barren time. from French Arthur romances, and was by far the best English prose that The great age of English poetry opened with the publication of Spenser's eight years at Shakspere's death, lived long enough to witness the throw much light upon the construction of later plays, like Shakspere's; all great poets, invented no new form of literature, but touched old John Milton, the greatest English poet except Shakspere, was born in The English novel of real life had its origin at this time. ./cache/11618.txt ./txt/11618.txt