Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

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... “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. When I was a schoolboy, we were required to read to the English class ... Read review





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A Journey into Literature
Review of Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer by TrueSatan

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 ... Read review

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Travellers' Tales
Review of Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer by frkurt

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. .... 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 ... Read review

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Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

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Type: Poetry

Title: Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

ISBN: 0140424385

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