... “Canterbury Tales” changed me, it altered how I thought about myself and let me grow in confidence. That’s pretty high praise so though this is a book opinion, I’ll add into it the manner in which the book affected me.
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English language as well as being a great poet and an accomplished prose writer. The Canterbury Tales although incomplete at the time of Chaucer's death is generally regarded as his greatest work. The Canterbury Tales tells the story of 30 pilgrims who meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in Southwark London and journey together to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. To pass the time along the way they tell stories to one another. The Tales themselves range from the exemplary saints' lives told by the nuns to the bawdy comic tales of the miller and the reeve always shot through with Chaucer's cunning wit and dry humour. Chaucer leaves his readers with the impression that the whole of medieval society has passed before their eyes. This new transcription and edition is taken from British Library MS Harley 7334 a beautifully decorated volume produced within ten years of Chaucer's death.The aim of the present edition with its 'on-page' notes and glosses is to enable readers with little or no previous experience of medieval English to read and enjoy this landmark in English Literature.
a masterly collection of chivalric romances moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers while preserving the wit and vivacity of Chaucer's original text.
Advantages: English literature at its finest Disadvantages: None
...plan! Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales were going to rescue me from my tormentors. I had read the book many times in a version translated into modern English by Professor Neville Coghill and always it had made me laugh out loud and I was certain that one in particular of its wonderful stories would so transfix my audience that they wouldn’t notice how poorly I delivered it to them. So it proved, the gambling was abandoned as all about me ... ...supplicants on a journey to Canterbury in the Middle Ages. They are organised by fictional moderator, Harry Bailly. Chaucer (retainer of the royal household, uncle to King Henry IV, and first to be laid to rest in what would come to be known as Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey) wrote them somewhere between 1387 and 1400 and they represent the lifestyles of every layer of society at the time. His pilgrims are thus from each layer of the social stratum ...
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Advantages: A true classic of the English language Disadvantages: In Middle English without translation, it can be difficult to read
In Chaucer's work, 'The Canterbury Tales', perhaps the greatest of English literary works from the period of the language known as Middle English, there is one particular piece that have always stood out for me.
'A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also,'
This is perhaps my favourite character, as when I first read it, it seemed to epitomise what I hoped for in my own life.
'That unto logik hadde longe y-go.
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For him was lever have at his beddes ... ...to his magnus opus, 'The Canterbury Tales', a collection of stories with prologue told by pilgrims on their journey to Canterbury (car radios and in-flight movies were rare in those days), Chaucer wrote minor poems to suit various occasions (his first record as poet comes from having written a poem as elegy on the death of John of Gaunt's first wife, Blanche, in 1369), and the major work for which he was noted for 'Troilus and Criseyde', which showed ...
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