Author : Henry Morley
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ISBN 13 : 9781331746874
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Early Prose Romances (Classic Reprint) by : Henry Morley
Download or read book Early Prose Romances (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Morley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Prose Romances This volume contains seven old stories. The first of them is the old Beast Epic of "Reynard the Fox," in Caxton's translation from the Flemish. Jacob Grimm believed that these fables of beasts applied, with a strong national feeling, to corruption growing among strong men who wronged the poor and used religion only as a cloak for violence and fraud, were from their origin Teutonic. Like fables elsewhere could in great measure be accounted for by the like suggestion of natural resemblance between beasts and men. But it has been observed that the earliest known use of such fabling by a German writer is in Fredegar's Chronicle, quoted under the year 612 as a rustica fabula of the Lion, the Fox, and the Stag, which distinctly follows Esop, and undergoes change afterwards from the fancy of narrators. The story also of the remedy suggested by the Fox to the sick Lion (see in this volume a chapter of Caxton's Reynart )comes from. Esop. It was developed in the eighth century in a Latin poem ascribed to the Lombard Paulus Diaconus, who may have had it at the court of Charlemagne as matter already familiar among the Franks. Either from Byzantium or through contact with Rome, such fables could readily have passed into the hearing or the reading of Teutonic monks, who cared about God and the people, steeped the fables in minds active for reform, and developed them, as the Teutonic races developed also the Arthurian myths, into forms inseparable from their nationality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
