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On the continuity of English prose from Alfred to More and his school.
R. W. Chambers
Published
1950
by Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press in London
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Written in English
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| LC Classifications | PR767 C5 1950 |
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| Pagination | 45-174p. |
| Number of Pages | 174 |
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| Open Library | OL15555748M |
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The continuity of native verse and prose was never really broken, and just as the English race was at last to absorb its foreign conquerors, and to gain infinitely more than it had suffered from them, so English language and literature were by the same means to be enriched and ennobled to an extent no one then looking on could have dreamed of. See R. W. Chambers, On the Continuity of English Prose from Alfred to More and his School (London, ), pp. xcii—c, esp. p. xciii: “England was remarkable for the number of its hermits and recluses, a fact which is the cause of the composition of so much English prose: the fact that women recluses would not be expected to be as.
Chambers, R.W. (); On the Continuity of English Prose from Alfred to More and His School; Oxford: Early English Text Society. (A useful study highlighting the essential continuity of the Old English prose tradition into Middle English times, despite the Norman Conquest.). No matter how limited his personal literacy may have been, Alfred did sponsor it in others, and even as his own reading was mediated by more educated assistants, Alfred in turn mediated the reading of his subjects. In the Prose Psalms and their Old English introductions, Alfred models Anglo-Saxon textual production on Old Testament patterns of Cited by: 1.
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On the Continuity of English Prose from Alfred to More and His School: An Extract from the Introduction to Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More By R. Chambers Oxford University Press, "The Continuity of English Prose From Alfred to More and His School." In The Life and Death of Sir Thomas More, Knight, Sometimes Lord High Chancellor of England.
London: Oxford University Press. His theory was completely rejected in by R.W. Chambers in his On the Continuity of English Prose from Alfred to More and his School, which has remained the most influential book on the subject2. It attempted to show that there was an unbroken line of development from Old English prose to.
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by R. Chambers and Marjorie 1 copy. English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth century, when alliterative poetry ceased to be by: 8.
The scholar R. Chambers wrote a study entitled On the Continuity of English Prose from Alfred to More and His School; since that “school” can be taken to include John Milton and the great historians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries then the influence of Alfred has been wide indeed.
In the words of Chambers himself, “it became. Alfred the Great (Old English: Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd, 'Elf-counsel' or 'Wise-elf'; between and – 26 October ) was King of Wessex from to c. and King of the Anglo-Saxons from c. to He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf of father died when he was young and three of Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht and Æthelred, reigned in turn before : –, Wantage, Berkshire.
Chambers, R. W. On the Continuity of English Prose from Alfred to More and His School. London: Chambers agrees with Krapp concerning the nature of the essential English prose tradition (clarity and intelligibility, simplicity and directness), but he traces this tradition back to.ally know it.
It is significant that Dr. Owst in his introduction felt a compulsion to write a defense of his theme. A few of his remarks I R. W. Chambers, "The Continuity of English Prose from Alfred to More and His School," Early English Text Society, No.
(London, ), p. cxlix. See also pp. exxv, clxvii.r. w. chambers, Thomas More (Westminster, Md. ), esp. "Epilogue: More's Place in History"; The Place of St. Thomas More in English Literature and History (London ); On the Continuity of English Prose from Alfred to More and His School (Early English Text Society A; ).
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