Word: arthurians
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Dates: during 1888-1888
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...Sophocles and. beyond all doubt, Aristophanes; Lucre tires, and Plato. In the middle ages, the Divine Comedy which has most perfectly expressed their thought and their emotions; the prelude to this, Dante's Vita Nuova; the Life of St. Louis, by Joinville, the Romance of the Cid, and the Arthurian Romances. In later times the number of names really great is considerable. One might give Chaucer, the freshest and most springlike of all poets; Spenser (though with a certain hesitation). and Milton,- a little, for his real greatness was style rather than matter. Among the moderns, man a should select...