The season has shed its mantle of wind and chill and rain.

Le temps a laissé son manteau
De vent, de froidure et de pluie.

Charles d'Orléans

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Seasons

Author

Charles d'Orléans

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1440 1440s 15th century

Era

Middle Ages

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

D'Orleans, Charles. Le temps a laissie son manteaux [Winter has cast his cloak away]. c. 1440.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

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Topic
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Medium
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Language
English
Time
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Era
European Renaissance
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 18, I. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 18.

Another quote from Middle Ages

He loved chivalrie,
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Source
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Language
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Time
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Era
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Original Citation

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The General Prologue." The Canterbury Tales. London: William Caxton, c. 1476.

Current Citation

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The General Prologue." The Canterbury Tales, edited and translated by Nevill Coghill. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

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