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... literary form . Men laughed or wept in the poetry , or prose of their own tongue ; but they thought in scholastic Latin . The work of Jean de Meung was an exception ; but , even there , the poetical form was rough and feeble ; the ...
... literary form . Men laughed or wept in the poetry , or prose of their own tongue ; but they thought in scholastic Latin . The work of Jean de Meung was an exception ; but , even there , the poetical form was rough and feeble ; the ...
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... literary salons -of which the chief was the famous blue drawing- room of the Hôtel de Rambouillet - where every conceivable question of taste and art , grammar and vocabulary , was discussed with passionate intensity ; and it showed ...
... literary salons -of which the chief was the famous blue drawing- room of the Hôtel de Rambouillet - where every conceivable question of taste and art , grammar and vocabulary , was discussed with passionate intensity ; and it showed ...
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... literary opinion of that age than the fact that it was able to impose itself even upon the mighty and towering spirit of Corneille . By nature , there can be little doubt that Corneille was a romantic . His fiery energy , his swelling ...
... literary opinion of that age than the fact that it was able to impose itself even upon the mighty and towering spirit of Corneille . By nature , there can be little doubt that Corneille was a romantic . His fiery energy , his swelling ...
Contents
ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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