22) §9. His Allegories. X. The Scottish Chaucerians. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...with a freedom from which Chaucer would have shrunk. Its antique line and alliteration connect it formally with the popular poetry which Chaucer would have shrunk....

23) §6. "The Wowing of Jok and Jynny". XI. The Middle Scots Anthologies: Anonymous Verse and Early Prose. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...some way with rustic wooing and matrimony, there is a burlesque element, but this must be distinguished from the subtler, more imaginative, and more literary type...

24) §14. Researches in the British Museum and tour in Yorkshire and Derbyshire; Gray appointed Professor of Modern History. VI. Gray. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...retort upon him with Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind in the Elegy. 38 In 1768, Gray s poems were republished by Dodsley, and for A Long Story were substituted...

25) §4. Northern Homilies and Legends. XVI. Later Transition English. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...influence, while, at the same time, it is not free from the tendency to alliteration prevalent in northern poetry. The writer had a genuine gift of narration and...

26) §5. Euphuism. XVI. Elizabethan Prose Fiction. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...mark on almost every European literature. The coincidence of its effects in the literary styles of England and Spain must be ascribed to the prevalence of similar...

27) Middle English literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...from which time the ballad also dates. 9 The Fourteenth CenturyThe poetry of the alliterative revival (see alliteration), the unexplained reemergence of the Anglo-Saxon...

28) §15. Chaucer s Learning. VII. Chaucer. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...his characters, the parson, in a fashion capital for literary history. But there is little else of direct reference. A moment s thought, however, will show that it...

29) §9. "Poems and Ballads". V. The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne, and Others. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and of words which, by community of sound and form, echo and are complementary to one another. The accusation of sound without sense has been brought by unsympathetic...

30) §15. Laurence Minot. XVI. Later Transition English. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and in five poems uses the long alliterative lines which occur in such poems as William of Palerne and Piers Plowman in rimed stanzas of varying length. The other...