A Manual of English Literature Historical And Critical With An Appendix On Eng
A Manual of English Literature Historical And Critical With An Appendix On Eng
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" Nihil quod tetigit, non ornavit. " The exquisite grace and tenderness with which the story of " Patient Griz- zel " is related are all his own ; and the fresh, breezy air of the greenwood, which we seem to inhale in read- ing parts of the " Knight's Tale, " betokens a Teutonic, not an Italian imagination.
Lastly, let us endeavor to trace the influence of ex- ternal nature upon Chaucer's poetical development. It must be borne in mind, indeed, Chaucer's phraseology NAEKATIVE POETRY. 381 constan...tly brings the fact before us, that to the En- glish poet of the fourteenth century Nature was far from being the pruned, tamed, and civilized phenome- non that she was and is to the poets of this and the eighteenth century. Chaucer speaks naturally, not figuratively, of the greenwood, by which he means what is now called in the Australian colonies " the bush, " that is, the wild woodland country, from which the original forests have never yet been removed by the hand of man. Even in Shakspeare's time, large por- tions of England still fell under this category ; so that he, too, could naturally sing of the " greenwood tree, '' and found no difficulty in describing, in " As You Like It, " what an Australian would call bush life, that is, life on a free earth and under a free heaven ; not trav- elling by turnpike roads, nor haunted by the dread of trespass and its penalties, but permitting men to rove at large, and, in Shakspeare's phrase, " to fleet the time carelessly as in the golden world.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" Nihil quod tetigit, non ornavit. " The exquisite grace and tenderness with which the story of " Patient Griz- zel " is related are all his own ; and the fresh, breezy air of the greenwood, which we seem to inhale in read- ing parts of the " Knight's Tale, " betokens a Teutonic, not an Italian imagination.
Lastly, let us endeavor to trace the influence of ex- ternal nature upon Chaucer's poetical development. It must be borne in mind, indeed, Chaucer's phraseology NAEKATIVE POETRY. 381 constan...tly brings the fact before us, that to the En- glish poet of the fourteenth century Nature was far from being the pruned, tamed, and civilized phenome- non that she was and is to the poets of this and the eighteenth century. Chaucer speaks naturally, not figuratively, of the greenwood, by which he means what is now called in the Australian colonies " the bush, " that is, the wild woodland country, from which the original forests have never yet been removed by the hand of man. Even in Shakspeare's time, large por- tions of England still fell under this category ; so that he, too, could naturally sing of the " greenwood tree, '' and found no difficulty in describing, in " As You Like It, " what an Australian would call bush life, that is, life on a free earth and under a free heaven ; not trav- elling by turnpike roads, nor haunted by the dread of trespass and its penalties, but permitting men to rove at large, and, in Shakspeare's phrase, " to fleet the time carelessly as in the golden world.
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