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Living With Bears: A Practical Guide to Bear Country
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Woods dwellers: Buy This Book!!!

A good general guide

Fun to read, accurate, practical

Bears, bears, bears!!!

Good advice for those who visit or live in bear habitat

Living With Bears: A Practical Guide to Bear Country
Linda Masterson
Manufacturer: PixyJack Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0977372405

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Colorado author Linda Masterson dispels myths, replaces fear with respect, and lays the foundation for improving human-black bear relations with an inside look at the fascinating world of these highly intelligent, adaptable and resourceful animals found in 41 U.S. states and every province in Canada. With over 900,000 black bears roaming North America today, people from Florida to British Columbia are encountering bears more often, and as a result, human-bear conflicts are on the rise. This guidebook to life in bear country is packed with a wealth of useful and often surprising information, and down-to-earth advice from bear experts all over the continent, along with real-life stories from wildlife managers, organizations and communities who've discovered creative, workable ways for people and bears to share space. - Understanding Black Bears and Their Behavior - Bear-Proofing Your Home - Safe Trash Stashing - Hiking, Camping & Playing in Bear Country - Birdfeeding, Bee-Keeping in Bear Country - Gardening, Orchards & Farming in Bear Country - Bear Behavior Modification - Avoiding Encounters & Attacks - Appendix: bear organizations, volunteer groups, state agencies, resources and index Case Studies from National Parks, wildlife sanctuaries and communities in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Florida, Tennessee, Washington, Nevada, California, Minnesota and Canada.

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Woods dwellers: Buy This Book!!!.......2007-08-26

Everyone who lives where ANY wild animals are, not just bears, would benefit from reading this book, and equally important, the animals would benefit from people reading this book. It tells how to coexist and enjoy nature without creating or having to deal with problem animals. When people and animals clash, the animals always lose in the end, so help yourself and them with the good advice in this book.

A good general guide.......2007-07-12

This book is worth the money and proviodes lots of good tips for avoiding conflicts. It does not contain much information on bear biology, but then again it doesn't present itself as a natural history guide. I would reccommend it to anyone interested in bear-human conflicts.

Fun to read, accurate, practical.......2007-06-13

This is far and away the best book available for a typical person who has a home or cabin in bear country and wants to know how to cope with bears. It doesn't read like a boring textbook--the writing is light and easy. But retired Colorado Division of Wildlife Conservation biologist Tom Beck did the technical editing, so it's accurate. Most books about bears have not been reviewed by a real expert, so they're filled with erroneous information--some of it quite dangerous. You can trust the advice in this book. It's practical without being preachy. If you decide to be a beekeeper in black bear country--yep, bears do like honey--Living With Bears gives you detailed instructions on how to keep bears out with an electric fence. It provides pragmatic advice for any bear situation you're likely to encounter. If you live in bear country and you want to be a good neighbor, this book will help you understand why bears behave the way they do. Outstanding.

Bears, bears, bears!!!.......2007-05-09

This book is awesome!! The perfect guide to co-existing with our big furry creature. I live in bear country and the bears are definitely out and about. Linda Masterson's book has helped me tremendously with methods of establishing boundaries and educating me on bear behavior. The book is easy to read and I would highly recommend you have it on hand!

Good advice for those who visit or live in bear habitat.......2007-01-05

This book should be required reading for anyone who vacations or moves into bear country. Through the words of expert biologists in the field as well as the experiences of communities that have developed plans to keep bears and people safe, Linda Masterson offers valuable advice. When it comes to coexistence with bears, education is the key, and this book offers very practical education. As an educator for Appalachian Bear Rescue and a presenter of bear programs, I find this book to be an invaluable resource.

Outwitting Bears: The Essential Handbook for Living with Bears, Avoiding Encounters, and Preventing Attacks on Anyone Living in Bear Country

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Outwitting Bears: The Essential Handbook for Living with Bears, Avoiding Encounters, and Preventing Attacks on Anyone Living in Bear Country
Gary Brown
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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There are plenty of ways to entice bears to come your way: if you rub yourself down with peanut butter, wander through remote cranberry bogs, and slosh across busy salmon streams, you'll be sure to draw one or two curious bruins. If you live in bear country, however, you need not go to such extraordinary efforts to invite ursine company. All you have to do is leave your pet's food (or your pet) outside at night, make a habit of barbecuing on windy days, and keep the gate to your pasture or your front yard unlocked, and the bears will come a-calling.

Gary Brown, former chief ranger at Yellowstone National Park, knows bears and their behavior better than just about any writer alive. His compendium of ways to "outwit" bears offers handy recipes for how to behave if, in fact, you don't want to open your home to bearish visitors--and, for that matter, how to behave if you encounter a bear in the wild. (Don't run, Brown urges: you'll only make yourself a more attractive target to any sporting bear, which in any event can cover twice as much ground as you can in the same time.) Brown provides strategies for securing food and garbage to help make your dwelling bear-proof and effective ways to convince bears to go elsewhere if such bear-proofing efforts come up short--such as installing motion-sensor lights around the house and equipping your loved ones with portable air horns and "bear spray."

If you live in or near bear habitat, you'll find this book highly useful--and perhaps even a lifesaver. --Gregory McNamee

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An essential book for anyone who camps or travels in bear country; or who has a home in areas where bears live or visit.

Americans in Bear Country - Living the Russian Way

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Thoroughly enjoyed
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A must read, from one who has lived 7 yrs outside the USA
A must read, from one who has lived 7 yrs outside the USA
Americans in Bear Country

Americans in Bear Country - Living the Russian Way
Missy Moore
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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A memoir of the author's experience living in the heartland of Russia, in 1992 and 1993. She and her husband lived the Russian way: in a tiny apartment, with intermittent water supply, and scarce food. This is the story about their adventures and the Russian people they came to love.

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Thoroughly enjoyed.......2000-07-19

I am thoroughly impressed with the author's ability to show us a detailed picture of everyday life in the Russian hinterlands. I never imagined people could still live that way in this day and age. We (Americans) are very much spoiled by what we consider "our necessities" in life. The emotions and visuals this book brought to me were so clear and real. I thought the last chapter written by the author's husband was a very nice touch. We have the story from both sides of this very adventurous couple! I was a little nervous about having to read about the Russian government/politial issues in this book, but was quite surprised and pleased to see it wasn't like any other book I've read about Russia. It is about the daily life of the everyday common person (or Americanski)in Pavlovo, Russia. Thank you for sharing your story, Missy Moore!

High School Librarian sees value in primary sources........2000-07-14

What a wonderful narrative of a present day adventure! Students often need material on Russia but are put off by lengthy books that are heavy on history and very short on interesting daily life. This book is perfect. It is like listening to a favorite relative tell about the trials of the depression and how it influenced all that came after.....

A must read, from one who has lived 7 yrs outside the USA.......2000-07-13

This is an invaluable book for those who complain about living in the USA, those interested in human nature, Russian travel or culture, or book lovers in general.

The most insightful comments were about human nature: property that is owned by everyone is not kept up by anyone and its corollary, property that is owned by everyone is free for the taking by anyone. Her examples are poignant, especially her attempt to set an example of personal responsibility.

Missy's love and concern for the ordinary people of the Russian hinterland overcame the deprivations and primitive conditions where they lived for 15 months. The isolation was intense, but expressed only in the context of overcoming it. The Russians responded to Missy with glowing warmth that was in stark contrast to the very cold climate.

Not only did I greatly enjoy the book, but since I was away when it arrived, I had to wait for my husband and a friend (who is going to Russia) to finish the book first. Our friend immediately bought a copy for his wife.

A must read, from one who has lived 7 yrs outside the USA.......2000-07-13

This is an invaluable book for those who complain about living in the USA, those interested in human nature, Russian travel or culture, or book lovers in general.

The most insightful comments about human nature: property that is owned by everyone is not kept up by anyone and its corollary, property that is owned by everyone is free for the taking by anyone. Her examples are poignant, especially her attempt to set an example.

Missy's love and concern for the ordinary people of the Russian hinterland overcame the deprivations and primitive conditions where they lived for 15 months. The isolation was intense, but expressed only in the context of overcoming it. The Russians responded to Missy with warmth that was in stark contrast to the very cold climate.

Americans in Bear Country.......2000-07-07

I would probably never read an abstract discussion of the Russian economy, but this first-person story held my attention all the way through. The fascinating picture it paints of the hardships under which most Russians live was an eye-opener and will stay with me a long time. As will the courage of the writer who faced all challenges with good humor and good sense.

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Country Living Country Bears
Country Living Magazine
Manufacturer: Hearst Books
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ASIN: 0688100163

Living in black bear country.: An article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal

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Living in black bear country.: An article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Ann Cotter
Manufacturer: Countryside Publications Ltd.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008VD5OE
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Countryside & Small Stock Journal, published by Countryside Publications Ltd. on March 1, 1993. The length of the article is 879 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A backwoods homesteader describes her family's methods for limiting contact with black bears. Keeping garbage well-covered and remains from butchering buried will keep bears from being attracted to the farm. Making noise when walking through the woods frightens them away.

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Title: Living in black bear country.
Author: Ann Cotter
Publication: Countryside & Small Stock Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 1993
Publisher: Countryside Publications Ltd.
Volume: v77 Issue: n2 Page: p68(1)

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Clippings from Orene's Garden: A Sourthern Gardener's Year
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Clippings from Orene's Garden

A User Friendly Gardening Guide

Walking with Orene through her winter garden

A wonderful layman's guide to gardening!

A GREAT REFERENCE

Clippings from Orene's Garden: A Sourthern Gardener's Year
Orene Horton
Manufacturer: Cote Literary Group
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ASIN: 1929175353

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Orene Stroud Horton was happiest in her garden. Widely acclaimed for her skills as a gardener and writer, she successfully combined both these talents to produce gardening articles for such publications as Fine Gardening and Southern Living magazines and The State newspaper for more than a dozen years. Her knack for creating beauty in the garden in unexpected ways through practical insights and artistic abilities delighted and enlightened her readers. Her most popular columns have been collected in this book as a tribute to her productive career.

Orene takes you, month by month, through a whole year in her garden, providing encouragement and words of wisdom on everything from how to defeat slugs to ways to use vegetables as ornamental plants. Do you have problems with too much shade? Too much sun? Poor soil? Not enough color in your flower beds? Have you run out of ideas for what to plant? Orene has answers for these and hundreds of other questions that challenge every gardener. Her conversational style, infectious enthusiasm, and great sense of humor make you feel as if you are listening to a valued friend.

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Clippings from Orene's Garden.......2003-04-01

Orene Stroud Horton, renowned garden writer and true southern lady gives us a wealth of practical and artistic information in this book. It is a wonderful resource for novice to expert gardners, as well as pleasant reading. Espically important are the numerous plant combinations that provide guidance to southern gardners for beautiful color and texture. It wonderful to have her wisdom in one place and not scattered on many slips of paper. A special thanks to her family who have made this gift available to all.

A User Friendly Gardening Guide.......2003-03-20

After years of trial and error gardening that's hard on the back as well as the budget, I welcome this practical guide that tells me as much or as little as I want to know.

I like the author's conversational, neighbor to neighbor style. And she presents the reader with regular bouquets of gardening tips from experienced friends and professionals, specific ways to make gardening easier and more pleasant for both the gardener and the plants.

Using the book's helpful calendar month organization, I easily found instructions on how and when to prune my Crape Myrtle -- and the mistakes to avoid. In the accompanying table, I found its height, flower color, trunk color, and fall color.

Whether she's discussing Monet's garden, her garden, or mine, I like the wit and humor with which the author explains "rose rustlers" and "passalong plants" and "xeriscaping". Her guidance in how to choose the right plant for the right place will help any gardener eliminate landscaping disappointments. And I especially welcome her "southern fried" section on how both gardeners and plants can beat the heat.

This book is fun to read, easy to use, and my new gardening companion.

Walking with Orene through her winter garden.......2003-03-19

This afternoon is gray and cold, but I've really been unaware of it, as I've had the companionship of Orene as she "walked me through" her winter garden. With her today, I have seen things I have never dreamed existed outside in winter. Having lived all my life in North Carolina, I have always taken for granted the flowers and trees that are indigenous to this area. My mother had a "green thumb" and worked in her roses tirelessly, humming to her heart's content. I merely enjoyed the fruits of her labor. Until today, as I walked with Orene. I was totally unaware of the wonders that take place before and during the growing season. For her to hold my attention so completely and to bring several chuckles to my lips as she describes her world has been a thing of beauty. I have several hobbies that are so different from hers (although hers was a way of life) that it really surprised me just how much I learned from her sharing and how much it kindled my interest in gardening. I can readily see how gardeners share her interests and have knowledge of the names and habits of the different flowers and trees she so beautifully describes gain much from the pages of her book. It is easy and enjoyable reading and written in such a personal way that one feels she is talking strictly to them. After having shared this adventure with Orene, I know that I will be more mindful of the surprises that lurk in my own yard and seek to see them through her eyes. How grateful I am that she has left these thoughts and the vast knowledge she had about her love of gardening so that we may benefit from her life forever. Such love and beauty should be preserved and treasured. How like her to devise a way to continue to give and to share her passion, not only for gardening, but for God's people!

A wonderful layman's guide to gardening!.......2003-03-19

It's in my blood but I never appreciated what gardening meant to my mother and her mother until reading "Clippings." The "open letter" at the end sums it up.

I have been a homeowner for 30 years and searched for a practical guide to gardening. This book provides a layman's perspective--enough detail to understand pansies, crape myrtles,camellias, azaleas, etc. but not be overwhelmed--there are references if you want that.

Orene's style is that of a patient mother teaching an eager leaner. I appreciate that and recommend "Clippings" to my fellow weekend "gardening" warriors.

A GREAT REFERENCE.......2003-03-17

Orene Horton's wise advice works for beginners and experts alike. She obviously loved her gardening and sharing that feeling with others. This is a book that can be read straight through and then kept as a continuing reference.

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This book presents a major re-examination of the works of the fifteenth-century Scottish poet, Robert Henryson. Encompassing the full range of the poet's work, Professor John MacQueen opens up previously unexplored areas of both Henryson's literary practice and his underlying moral and philosophical vision. MacQueen argues that numerology is central to the intellectual landscape that shaped Henryson's development as a poet, and that numerological patterns and structures are embedded throughout his corpus, revealing themselves not simply in such overtly allegorical works as The Testament of Cresseid, but also in many of the Fables as well. This book therefore recovers for a modern audience qualities to which Henryson's original readers would have been alert, while at the same time conveying something of the energy and excitement of his intellectual and poetic culture. Through a series of close and sensitive readings of the poems, the book presents an original and lucid account of Henryson's work that will not only engage specialists in medieval Scottish literature, but will also appeal to a wider readership with broader interests in narrative and poetic form.

The Poems of Robert Henryson (TEAMS Middle English Texts)

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The Poems of Robert Henryson (TEAMS Middle English Texts)
Robert Henryson
Manufacturer: Western Michigan Univ Medieval
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The Moral Fables of Aesop: A New Edition of the Middle Scots Text and Introduction

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The Moral Fables of Aesop: A New Edition of the Middle Scots Text and Introduction
Robert Henryson
Manufacturer: University of Notre Dame Press
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The Makars: The Poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas (Canongate Classics, 88)

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The Makars: The Poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas (Canongate Classics, 88)

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pitching it low.......2006-07-03

Purchasing this book "for pleasure," I expected it to be the sort of peculiar pleasure much medieval poetry affords: a long hard slog, allusions to arcane mythological stories, an uneasy settling into a language related but treacherously ancestral to our own, some startlingly beautiful images, and a vague feeling at the end that you were leaving edified and dully strengthened, as if by oatmeal.

This edition of the Makars contains three Scottish poets: roughly the complete works of Robert Henryson (late 15th century) and William Dunbar (early 16th c) and one long poem "Palace of Honour" by Gavin Douglas (early 16th c)--in that order. Henryson caught me off guard and disarmed me completely. Much of his section contains beast-fables of the Aesop variety: standard enough medieval fare--but the morals are unexpected and at times highly tenuous, and his embellishments to the narrative line are often hilarious, from Chaunticleer's hens discussing (as the poor cock is carried off by the fox) how much they will NOT miss his feeble conjugal attentions to a wolf baptising (and thus re-naming) a goat in the ocean so that he won't break his Lenten fast: "Come up, Sir Salmon!" Ah, who can you share such moments with, nowadays? Henryson has enough social outrage in his poetry, also, for both the pious and the querulous among us.

Dunbar is--well, there's no other words for it, "God's plenty" as Dryden said of Chaucer. He writes poetry begging the king for money, poetry making fun of people at court, poetry in the "flyting" genre of elaborate and nasty insults, poetry complaining about the ubiquity of death, allegorical and debate poetry, poetry celebrating Jesus and Mary, a mock last will-and-testament--and on and on it goes. Most of them are funny or bloodcurdling.

Only when I got to Douglas did I have to do the hard slogging, and I warn you to stick with it: the third part (when he actually gets to the palace of honour) is much better than the first three.

A note on the edition, which gives this book its four stars and not five. It's a fine edition, but it is designed for people who know virtually nothing about 1) the Bible, 2) various mythologies, and 3) slightly archaic vocabulary. We find, for instance, that "the ancient Greek poet Homer is the author of two great epic works, the Iliad and the Odyssey." If you didn't know that, then I wonder how you found your way to the non-canonical edition of the Makars. The endnotes in the back are fairly exhaustive on the aforementioned arcane mythological stories (and a few medieval customs), so that a reader gets a fairly good picture of what the poems are saying, but the notes are not in-depth enough to provide help toward interpretation. Again, the notes in the back give a short summary of each poem, some of which are helpful but which are not decisive cues for interpretation. The glosses for Scottish words are again exhaustive, almost too much so--"armony" being "harmony" is probably deducible from context, and that's one of many nit-picky examples. At times, the glosses approach interpretation themselves, so that I'm not sure, for instance, if "vissage" actually means "head" or if it means "visage" and the editor is interpreting it as likely "head" in the context. To the editor's credit, words are glossed over and over, so that if you forget the definition from page 1, here it comes again. Also, lines which contain difficult syntax are translated, not just glossed, at the bottom of the page. In short, this edition hits exactly what it aims for: an undergraduate unfamiliar with medieval literature. If I were teaching a junior-level class, I'd have to order this as a textbook. The notes will hold your hand to guide you, but they will not kiss you with insight.

Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer, and His Followers

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An important and innovatory study

Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer, and His Followers
Edward Wheatley
Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
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ASIN: 0813017459

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An important and innovatory study.......2003-04-29

This is certain to become a much consulted and frequently cited work. Wheatley's study of the manuscript tradition of the Latin Aesop of a twelfth-century poet known as "Walter of England," or (better) as the "Anonymus Neveleti," leads him to a number of important new insights into the use of the genre in later medieval vernacular English and Scots literature. The analysis offered here of Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale is destined to be a classic, providing richly suggestive readings of elements hitherto thought merely arbitrary or idiosyncratic. Less interesting, if still competent, are Wheatley's discussions of Lydgate and Henryson. Even those benighted scholars in fields other than English will find much inspiration here, and any literary historian who has not read this book should hasten to make good the omission.

The Story of Troilus, as told by Benoit de Sainte-Maure, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Henryson

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The Story of Troilus, as told by Benoit de Sainte-Maure, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Henryson

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Authors of the Middle Ages: English Writers of the Late Middle Ages : Nos 1-4 (Arthurian Archives,)

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Authors of the Middle Ages: English Writers of the Late Middle Ages : Nos 1-4 (Arthurian Archives,)

Manufacturer: Variorum
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Chaucerian Tragedy (Chaucer Studies)
Henry Ansgar Kelly
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This book takes issue with several critical stereotypes about tragedy in the medieval period, suggesting that contrary to received wisdom it was not a common term, nor was there a uniform meaning given to it by the few who used it. Professor Kelly argues that Chaucer was the first author of the middle ages to write tragedies in the vernacular, and it was his understanding and demonstration of tragedy which shaped notions of the genre.
The book seeksto place Chaucer's achievement in a critical and historical context, beginning by contrasting modern with medieval theoretical approaches to the study of genres. It goes on to discuss Boccaccio's concept of tragedy as a dramaticform and his De casibusbefore turning to Chaucer himself, exploring the ideas of tragedy prevalent in medieval England, showing what Chaucer meant by the term, and the influences upon him. Troilus and Criseydeis analysed specifically as a tragedy, and consideration is given to its receptionin modern times. Later chapters take up two of Chaucer's imitators, John Lydgate and Robert Henryson, and analyse the ways in which they understood and practiced tragedy.
Professor HENRY ANSGAR KELLYteaches at UCLA.

Fabula Docet: Studies in the Background and Interpretation of Henryson's Morall Fabillis (Odense University Studies in English , Vol 4)

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Fabula Docet: Studies in the Background and Interpretation of Henryson's Morall Fabillis (Odense University Studies in English , Vol 4)
Marianne Powell
Manufacturer: Univ Pr of Southern Denmark
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Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

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Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Robert Kindrick
Manufacturer: Routledge
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