Illuminator, Makar, Vates: Visions of Poetry in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 10 |
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... concerns of their so - called masters . Their poetry represents a significant redefinition of the relation of poets to their medium and a reassessment of the importance of poetry as a vehicle of truth and a means of ennobling humanity ...
... concerns of their so - called masters . Their poetry represents a significant redefinition of the relation of poets to their medium and a reassessment of the importance of poetry as a vehicle of truth and a means of ennobling humanity ...
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... concerns that are not prominent in his work.2 Underlying Chaucer's conception of poetry is an essential uneasi- ness about the truthfulness of poetry and the limitations of mortals with their mutable language and imperfect " entente ...
... concerns that are not prominent in his work.2 Underlying Chaucer's conception of poetry is an essential uneasi- ness about the truthfulness of poetry and the limitations of mortals with their mutable language and imperfect " entente ...
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... concern a poet might have , neither earthly Fortune nor love , the concerns of the first four lais , but enduring honor and virtue . in In the Palice of Honour , thus , Douglas views poetry as ennobling . It revives the suffering ...
... concern a poet might have , neither earthly Fortune nor love , the concerns of the first four lais , but enduring honor and virtue . in In the Palice of Honour , thus , Douglas views poetry as ennobling . It revives the suffering ...
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