Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

...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 ...

TrueSatan 29.11.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

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 ...

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Review of Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer