. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . The Reeve. Tlie The Man of Law. The Wife of Bath. THE C.\XTEKBIRT PILGRIMS. [By permission 0/ the Right lion, the Earl of FMcsmere.) 292 THE BLACK DEATH. ASD AFTERWAED,S. [1348-1399 men, except the very highest and the lowest, not ;dl from thesame rank of society as in Boccaccio s book. The idea ofrepresenting the varions grades of tliu conimonweahh, and ofmaking them undertalvc a )iilgrimage, is wit
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . The Reeve. Tlie The Man of Law. The Wife of Bath. THE C.\XTEKBIRT PILGRIMS. [By permission 0/ the Right lion, the Earl of FMcsmere.) 292 THE BLACK DEATH. ASD AFTERWAED,S. [1348-1399 men, except the very highest and the lowest, not ;dl from thesame rank of society as in Boccaccio s book. The idea ofrepresenting the varions grades of tliu conimonweahh, and ofmaking them undertalvc a )iilgrimage, is without doubt due toJjanglands Piers Plowman (p. -WNj, but in the methodof adaptation the masters hand is again visible, for the goalof their journey is not an abstract Truth, but the ancientcity and cathedral of Canterbury with all its ecclesiasticaland historical memories: and the power of charatterisationis far greater and more dramatic than that of the Malvernpoet, tliough ev(^n Langland had gone nmch farther in thisdirection than ihr allegorical names of his personages is not im[>Lissible that Gower in a nCgative way had alsohelped to call this masterpiece into existence, for in 13iS3, orthe
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