POEMS FRANCO-ITALIAN EPICS-FRENCH PATRIOTIC VERSE-ROMANS
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D'AVENTURE
CICILIANO'- -THE REALI DI FRANCIA-GERMAN EPICS-ICELANDIC
RÍMUR FORNSÖGUR AND LYGISÖGUR -
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LITERATIVE POETRY-SCOTTISH ROMANCES--THE 'BRUCE'-LAURENCE
MINOT.
How came the old poetry-epic, romance, minnesong —to die out as it did in the fourteenth century? Was it suffocated by adverse outward conditions, court-poetry? or had it completed its natural term of life? Perhaps it is not necessary to choose between these solutions. It seems probable that more than one cause was at work. That there were hostile agencies abroad cannot be doubted. In this task of