Dark Ages

…He was a pioneer in the field of medieval poetry research, and excelled in his study of poetic form and genre. His works Epic and Romance (1897, revised in 1908), The Art of Poetry (1923), and Poetic Form and Style (1928) were highly influential. However, his view of the Middle Ages as a "dark age" was so popular that his book Dark Ages (1904) became the source of misunderstandings about the Middle Ages. During his time studying in London, Natsume Soseki was one of his lecturers. …

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…中世の詩の研究の分野での草分けであり，詩の形式，ジャンルへの考察に優れ，《叙事詩とロマンス》(1897，改訂1908)，《詩の技法》(1923)，《詩の形式と文体》(1928)は大きな影響力をもった。しかし中世を〈暗黒時代〉と見る史観はその著《暗黒時代》(1904)が一世を風靡しただけに，中世を誤解させるもとになったといえよう。ロンドン留学時代，夏目漱石が彼の講筵に列している。…

※「《暗黒時代》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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