"The most beautiful story of the Middle Ages, Aucassin and Nicolette, one of the few perfectly beautiful stories in the world…cannot be made into a representative medieval romance: there is nothing else like it; and the qualities that make it what it is are the opposite of the rhetorical self-possession, the correct and deliberate narrative of Chrestien and his school."
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W. P. Ker Epic and Romance (London: Macmillan, [1897] 1922) p. 327
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