12) §11. Uncertain authors in "Tottel s Miscellany". VIII. The New English Poetry. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...the stock of subjects and ideas. Some of the authors, clearly, were familiar with the work of Boccaccio—the story of Troilus and Cressida is a favourite reference—and...

13) Old Norse literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...literatures except Gaelic. In the later 13th cent., with Iceland's loss of independence to Norway, literary activity declined and had virtually disappeared a century...

14) §1. Robert Southwell. VII. Robert Southwell. Samuel Daniel. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and certainly would be considered so by Southwell s readers. And, if Southwell had read Shakespeare, it is clear, from a number of interesting correspondences to...

15) §13. Thomas Tusser. VIII. The New English Poetry. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of all I survey. Tusser singenuity leads him into many faults; he affects acrostics and alliteration (in his Things Thriftie there are twelve couplets in which every...

16) §14. Spenser as a word-painter and as a metrical musician. XI. The Poetry of Spenser. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...for thee. 13 44 Throughout the various examples here given, it will be noticed that alliteration plays an important part in the composition of the general effect....

17) §6. The second generation of Reformation Preachers: Lever, Bradford and Gilpin. XII. The English Pulpit from Fisher to Donne. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...gets into difficulties with long sentences. He tries to satisfy the prevailing taste for alliteration, and produces astounding examples with as many as eight words...

18) §12. Qualities. XXXII. Non-English Writings II. Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...within our own definition of poetry. That is to say, they have definite, repetitive rhythm pattern. They have sonority, assonance, and in some instances even alliteration...

19) §4. His achievements. X. George Gascoigne. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...marked by Gascoigne with a comma: When vintners mix, no water with their wine, When printers passe, none errours in their bookes, When hatters use, to bye none olde...

20) §6. Alexander Scott. VI. Sir David Lyndsay. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and his power of mirroring sentiment and emotion in sound and rhythm; and there are also qualities in the tone and spirit of his verse that individualise it and distinguish...