“The Father of English poetry”:Originally, Old English poems are mainly alliterative verses with few variations.①Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry to replace it.②In The Romaunt of the Rose (玫瑰传奇), he first introduced to the English the ...
2.A male parent of an animal. 3.A male ancestor:He has died and now sleeps with his fathers. 4. a.A man who creates, originates, or founds something:Chaucer is considered the father of English poetry. b.A man who serves or is thought of as a protector:beloved as the father of ...
6)The Father of lights上帝 7)Holy Father罗马教皇 2.历史文化 1) Father Abraham慈父亚伯拉罕(指美国第16任总统亚伯拉罕·林肯) 2) Father of English novel英国小说之父(指Samuel Richardson, 1689?761;亦指Henry Fielding, 1707?754) 3)Father of English Poetry英国诗歌之父(指乔叟[Geoffrey Chaucer]) 4)...
...was preparing for her wonted rest. It was a fit time for meditation, prayer, and praise. Such an evening, perhaps, as that which led the patriarch of old to meditation, when he lifted up his eyes and saw the returning servants of hisfatherbringing home his future wife. As I drew...
Odin- (Norse mythology) ruler of the Aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of Frigg; identified with the Teutonic Wotan Norse mythology- the mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishmen...
By the time I was 10, I could recite from a whole range of ___ literature and poetry.Of course, there were times when I was ___ of studying. But Father would always ___ me of my duty by quoting Shakespeare: “If all the year were playing holidays, to play would be as tedious...
Who is regarded as 'the Father of English Poetry'?A.Geoffrey Chaucer.B.Edmund Spenser.C.John Milton.D.John Gower. A.GeoffreyB.B.EdmundC.C.JohnD.D.JohnE. 点击查看答案手机看题 你可能感兴趣的试题 单项选择题 ___are the earliest settlers in Britain.A.RomansB.CeltsC.IberiansD.Anglo-Saxon...
1. ___, a typical example of Old English poetry, is considered the greatest national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. a. Piers Plowman b. The Canterbury Tales c. The House of Fame d. Beowulf 2. It was ___ who made London dialect the foundation of the modern English speech. a. Chaucer...
the Father of English poetry英诗鼻祖 ③固定搭配 Father Christmas圣诞老人 Father's Day父亲节 (4)mother的其他用法 ①根本;来源 Necessary is the mother of invention. (谚语)需要乃发明之母。 ②固定搭配 mother tongue母语;本国语Mother's Day母亲节 ...
of what is found there. xi One morning, very early, my father walks through the hall in his slippers and stops to read caption X. It does not look to him like poetry, but like "chopped up prose." Why those line breaks? Why that spacing? The poem confounds him. To his ...