CHAMISSO, A. VON. b. 1781, d. 1838. French poet and naturalist.
THE SHADOWLESS MAN: or THE WONDERFUL HISTORY OF PETER SCHLEMIHL. [1845.]
CHANSONS DE GESTES, 12th and 13th centuries.
A series of long narrative poems dealing with warfare and adventure. The principal poems of the Carlovingian Cycle are The Song of Roland, Ogier le Danois, Renaud de Montauban, Raoul de Cambrai, Huon de Bordeaux, Les Saisnes, Doon de Mayence, Gerard de Viane and Hugues Capet.
These were of vast importance in the metrical paraphrases that occupied the chief period of English Literature in the Middle Ages, had a very great influence upon the Italian romancers, affected English literature through Spenser and others, and influenced more particularly the Elizabethan period.
BOIARDO, MATTIO M. ORLANDO INNAMORATO. The three first Bookes done into English Heroical Verse (1480). Tr. by R(obert) T(ofte). 1598.
CAXTON, WILLIAM. THE LYF OF THE NOBLE AND CRYSTEN PRINCE CHARLES THE GRETE, translated by Wm. Caxton. 1485.
(Reissued by the Early English Text Society, 1880-1.)
CAXTON, WILLIAM. THE RIGHT PLEASANT AND GOODLY HISTORY OF THE FOUR SONNES OF AYMON. 1489.