A study of consolation poetry of the fourteenth century, with particular reference to The book of the Duchess, Pearl, The parlement of the thre ages and sundry minor poems on death
Bibliography: pages 171-178. === Fourteenth-century man saw around him constantly the immediate prospect of death. Not only the high mortality rate and the universally public death-bed scene which had always been present, but pestilence and war emphasized the proximity of the dread messenger. Around...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | English |
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University of Cape Town
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22217 |