"With many a floryn he the hewes boghte": Ekphrasis and Symbolis Violence in the Knight's Tale
Tags: CRITICISM; COMPARATIVE literature -- Themes, motives; CANTERBURY Tales: The Knight's Tale; CHAUCER, Geoffrey, d. 1400; EKPHRASIS
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