百年哈佛经典第35卷：见闻与传奇(英文原版)

Jean Froissart,the most representative of the chroniclers of tje larter Middle Ages,The Chronicle which,more than his poetry,has kept his fame alive.Froissart's wandering life points to one of his most prominent characterisitics as a historian,Malory's book is a compilation from French and English sources.These are chosen without much discrimination,and put together without great skill in arrangement,but the author's wholehearted enthusiasm for chivalrous ideals and the noble simplicity and fine rhythm of his prose have combined to give his work a uniqe place in English literature,Near the beginning of Elizabeth's reign,Raphael Holinshed had charge of Holinshed's Chronicles.William Harrison was allotted the task of writing the De*ions of Britaion and England,He Wrote a racy style with a strong individual as well as Elizabethan flavor:and his personal comment upon the manners of his time serves as a piquatnt sauce to the solid meat of his historical information.