“Professor Adams seems to have read the whole library and yet. . .retained his pith, vigor, suppleness, and good cheer. In addition, he knows how to tell a story. . . .One of the pleasure. . .lies in [the book’s] rich texture of cross-references between history and literature. . . .Exhilarating.” —Daniel Albright, New York Review of Books
“Professor Adams seems to have read the whole library and yet. . .retained his pith, vigor, suppleness, and good cheer. In addition, he knows how to tell a story. . . .One of the pleasure. . .lies in [the book’s] rich texture of cross-references between history and literature. . . .Exhilarating.” —Daniel Albright, New York Review of Books
A companion to British literature explores the political, social, intellectual, and cultural history and background of English poetry, fiction, prose, and drama and analyzes the changing conditions of literary activity.
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Chaucer himself was the son of a dealer in luxuries for gentlefolk; his father was a wine merchant, selling most likely wines from the Bordeaux region, where Edward III had been busily enlarging English hegemony. And the merchant in Chaucer's company, we note, is a enthusiast for that freedom of the seas which had been won at the naval battle of Sluys in 1340, just about the time Chaucer was born. (查看原文)
0 有用 Cannelé 2022-04-15 21:46:01
我！终于！读完了！啊啊啊！数了一下大概有4000页！我真牛逼！Robert Adams 太牛了，语言也极好，还埋了好多文学梗！