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The Battle of the Books

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2021

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Meeting Report
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1924

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Footnotes

The President's Address, delivered at Ann Arbor on the evening of Thursday, December 27, 1923, at the Fortieth Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America.

References

Notes

1 This was essentially true, even if the slight resemblances to classical epics are seriously considered.

2 Miss Deanesly's Lollard Bible (Cambridge Medieval Studies) seems to prove this conclusively enough, although her thesis is just the opposite.

3 See Modern Language Notes I, 15-16.

4 My father's experience, as he set it down in a brief biography for his children.