... slightly negative connotations which the term came to have are due to the emphasis on the belief in fairies expressed in some of the tales. But much more positive is the rediscovery of myth and legend which allowed Yeats and other writers to bring such figures as Cuchulain ... a short-lived revival of poetic drama. T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral (1935), on the subject of the martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, had a considerable impact; but the plays which followed, most notably The Cocktail Party (1950), blend the London West End theatrical ... ) and...

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... ). This bemoaning of Fortune's vagaries takes the medieval literary form of a complaint (a "compleynt"), which was usually a short, sometimes musical poem, sung by a lover about his loss of a love, essentially a lyric genre. But Chaucer, while remaining true to the contemporary style, also asserts Boethius's older, more pious reflection (buttressed by the reference to Socrates) that the self-possessed person should be above ... the time did the same. This poem, a slightly rough but still brilliantly conceived example of the dream-vision genre, is a good example of Chaucer's flexibility a...

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... . These paintings were very significant in launching his career. Caravaggio's early work depicted evocative pictures of young boys done up as angels, his favorite saint, John the Baptist, still-life's, genre scenes, and self portraits. His only known assistant was Cecco, who often appears in Caravaggio's work and is believed to have been his lover. In 1597, Caravaggio was given the ... . In the same way Caravaggio revolutionized Renaissance art by choosing a dramatic subject for his painting, "The Miller's Tale" by Chaucer divorces tradition and challenges the status quo. The Canterbury T...

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