Essays on Medieval Literature (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Essays on Medieval Literature

These Essays have all been printed before. The first of them served as an introduction to the first volume of Sir Henry Craik's English Prose Selection; (macmillan, The Similes of Dante appeared in the Modern Quarterly for March 1898. Boccaccio was read as a Taylorian lecture at Oxford, and published, in most honourable company, with other lectures of the same foundation - Studies in European Literature - at the Clarendon Press, 1900. Chaucer (part of a review of Mr. Skeat's edition) and the article on Mr. Macaulay's Gower are from the Quarterly Review, April 1895 and April 1903. The essay on Froissart (and on his English translator) was written at the request of Mr. W. E. Henley for the new edition of Lord Berners - T/ze Cronykle of Syr Froiuart - in the Tudor Translations (nutt, 1901 The last essay.

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