Периоды английской литературы. Карпова В.А - 22 стр.

11. “Piers Plowman” is a non-alliterative poem.
12. The Middle English romances are largely in prose.
13. Chaucer, like Shakespeare, is for all time.
14. Allegory was the way the medieval mind characteristically worked; it
    was a mode of seeing.
15. The reader who eventually reads Chaucer’s poems in chronological
    order will begin with the “Canterbury Tales”.
16. .The story of “Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight” is very ancient and
    there are analogues in both early Celtic and French documents.
17. All English metrical romances appear to have been written
    compositions.
18. Chaucer’s great asset is his English vernacular.
19. The new-fashioned kind of English poetry shows itself already in the
    century before Chaucer, in an early thirteenth-century debate-poem
    called ‘The Owl and the Nightingale”.
20. There are two dozen English medieval romances extant.




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