The earliest noteworthy lyric poet is Juan Ruiz (1300-1350). Didactic literature. As early as the first half of the thirteenth century, we have in Spain a strong didactic literature. Gonzalo de Berceo (d. 1268) wrote many lives of the saints, miracles, hymns to the Virgin, and other devotional pieces. But the impulse to allegorizing does not seem to come to Spain till much later. Fables and tales. Though a little later in being developed in Spain than in France, the same delight was taken in fables and short tales.英文原著 · 《Song and Legend From the Middle Ages》
But the aim of its author was didactic, which Chaucer's had never been.英文原著 · 《Chaucer》
426-674. Cretiens li Gois is cited by the author of the "Ovide moralise" as the author of the episode of Philomena incorporated in his long didactic poem. This episode has been ascribed to Chretien de Troyes by many recent critics, and has been separately edited by C. de Boer, who offers in his Introduction a lengthy discussion of its authorship. See C. de Boer, "Philomena, conte raconte d'apres Ovide par Chretien de Troyes" (Paris, 1909). (5) The present cathedral of Beauvais is dedicated to St. Peter, and its construction was begun in 1227.英文原著 · 《Four Arthurian Romances》
The Hesiodic poems fall into two groups according as they are didactic (technical or gnomic) or genealogical: the first group centres round the "Works and Days", the second round the "Theogony".英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
69.] Speaking of defensive Campaigns, says Friedrich didactically, years afterwards, 'If such situations are to answer the purpose intended, the front and flanks must be equally strong, but the rear entirely open. Such, for instance, are those heights which have an extensive front, and whose flanks are covered by morasses:--as was Prince Karl's Camp at Marschowitz in the year 1744, with its front covered by a stream, and the wings by deep hollows; or that which we ourselves then occupied at Konopischt,--as you well remember. [ Military Instructions (above cited), p.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 15》
Schmettau's NARRATIVE, deducting the endless lamentings, especially the extensive didactic digressions, is very clear, ocular, exact; and, in contrast with Friedrich's own, is really amusing to read. A Schmettau giving us, in his haggard light and oblique point of vision, the naked truth, NAKED and all in a shiver; a Friedrich striving to drape it a little, and make it comfortable to himself. Those bits of Anecdotes in SCHMETTAU, clear, credible, as if we had seen them, are so many crevices through which it is curiously worth while to look.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 21》
And so we need guidance and we need didactic learning. And so we need guidance and we need didactic learning.演讲 · 《Atheism 2.0 ~ Alain de Botton》