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JOHN NORTON-SMITH The Golden Mirror: Studies in Chaucer's Descriptive Technique and its Literary Background, by Claes Schaar 27/1, p. 43
Norman Klassen

Amanda Holton, The Sources of Chaucer’s Poetics

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