| 单词 | Chaucer |
| 例句 | In this direction, if you happened to be broad-minded, you might have been amused to see the saucy Alisoun who cried “Tee-Hee!” after she had been given the unusual kiss which Chaucer tells about. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z This idea caught on, even though great literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Milton is bristling with sentences ending in prepositions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as we might call Dunstaple’s contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer the father of English literature, so we should call John Dunstaple the father of the triad, and therefore of the Western harmonic system. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She was an English major at Mount Sebastian, and she wrote beautifully about her professors and roommates and midterm exams, about her respect for Chaucer and her great affection for Virginia Woolf. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while she thought of herself as a kind of medical Chaucer, whose wards thronged with colorful types, coves, topers, old hats, nice dears with a sinister secret to tell. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The tweediness of our faculty, and the curriculum itself, which began, Hellenically, Byronically, with Homer, and then skipped straight to Chaucer, moving on to Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, and E. M. Forster. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Chaucer and Shakespeare did this all the time to accentuate the negative. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As a structure, this is as old as Chaucer, but it feels, for this generation, very new. Rachel Cusk is returning fiction to its roots in storytelling 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Nuns aren’t always in stories to serve as exemplars of goodness, of course: Chaucer’s nun was a phony. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z "A word that goes back to Chaucer's time they will ask you to cut, but the manipulative and deceitful language of politics they use themselves." Loach in Cannes with spirited 'The Angels' Share' 2012-05-22T15:44:09Z These days gap-toothed smiles are regarded not just as a mark of fortune or, as they have been since Chaucer’s day, a sign of sexual rapacity, but also as a positively enviable fashion calling card. Gap-Toothed Smile, the New Fashionable Calling Card 2012-02-15T22:29:11Z Chaucer’s text, even unfinished, extends to 29 pilgrims and a host. Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z To be a poet, however reduced and/or neglected, is to be a member of an elite; heir to a tradition that includes Chaucer, Shakespeare, Byron, Auden and Larkin. The class pyramid of British literature 2010-03-22T12:01:00Z More than 600 years ago poet Geoffrey Chaucer died without completing his greatest masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales. Original Chaucer manuscript online 2014-04-25T12:38:48Z “It remains astonishingly undated,” said David Lawton, the executive director of the New Chaucer Society. Charles Muscatine, Chaucer Scholar, Dies at 89 2010-03-20T05:13:00Z He also published two books on Chaucer and created the kids’ TV cartoon Blazing Dragons, which ran for two seasons from 1996-98 and told the history of chivalry from the dragons’ point of view. Terry Jones, Monty Python founder and Life of Brian director, dies aged 77 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z He communicated this idea in a Friedman-esque way, concealing it in a 1959 article on Chaucer’s anagrams, then putting the solution in an envelope to be opened after his death. ‘Decoding the Renaissance,’ at the Folger Shakespeare 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The Friedmans did, however, provide an enigmatic message about the manuscript in an article in Philogical Quarterly, “Acrostics, Anagrams, and Chaucer,” published in 1959. The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z She remembered having to translate Chaucer into contemporary English during her studies at Cambridge University. Zadie Smith’s First Play Brings Chaucer to Her Beloved Northwest London 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z In Smith’s rendering, Chaucer’s tapestry has shrunk to just one thread, though arguably its most vivid. Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z I like my erotic literature to be beautifully written as well as funny and can't do better than Chaucer. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z Why not hang on, and introduce his plays as archaeological literary digs at A-level – like Chaucer or Milton? I, Malvolio: bringing Shakespeare to life for young audiences 2011-08-16T09:15:01Z For four centuries pilgrims would flock in their tens of thousands from every corner of the Christian world to seek the intercession of Chaucer's "holy, blissful martyr". Thomas Becket, Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim by John Guy - review 2012-05-18T21:55:07Z David explained that the ancient Chaucer tomb is tiny because he stood just over 4 feet tall. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Still, he says of his friend, “If I dealt in coins and cunning, Chaucer dealt in words and figures, which he mingled, cooked, and distilled with the adept mastery of an alchemist.” ‘The Invention of Fire’ is a thrillingly written 14th-century murder mystery 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Number of stories in Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.” Literary treasures from Corpus Christi College at Oxford arrive in Washington 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z It is a remarkable achievement, the Kelmscott Press Chaucer: it renders one of the greatest of our greatest poets well-nigh unreadable. William Blake brought me face to face with my literary fundamentalism 2012-11-06T12:09:21Z Instead of Chaucer’s knight, merchant and monk, Smith has characters you might see walking down Kilburn High Road, including a Nigerian pastor and a Polish bailiff. Zadie Smith’s First Play Brings Chaucer to Her Beloved Northwest London 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z "If you believe all this, and don't believe in the existence of cathedrals and Chaucer, congratulations – to borrow the words of Joseph Brodsky, 'you're in The Empire, friend' – the empire of intellectual complacency." Salman Rushdie says he'll 'get medieval' on Times Literary Supplement 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z It came into being by chance, through the presence of Chaucer's grave in the south transept. Ted Hughes joins literary greats at Poets' Corner 2010-03-23T06:00:00Z It’s written in rhymed triplets, a version of a form employed by the poets Chaucer and Dante called a terza rima. This Basketball-Loving Poet Resists Categorization 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z In Poet’s Corner, in the south transept, there’s the marble tomb of 14th century poet Geoffrey Chaucer, whose burial began the custom of Britain’s greatest artists being buried or memorialized at the abbey. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z A series of stories told by a group of travellers, in Chaucer's Middle English, takes readers on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket in Canterbury. Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z As in Chaucer’s poem, she prefaces her tale with what is essentially her life story, enlisting the pub’s patrons as her many husbands and various friends and acquaintances. Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z In the literature of the Middle Ages, Chaucer was the most famous writer to merrily invoke the C-word, or, in his case, the Q-word. Ivanka Trump, Samantha Bee, and the Strange Path of an Ancient Epithet 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “The Canterbury Tales,” written by Chaucer in about the late 14th century, is a collection of 24 stories told by a group of pilgrims during their journey to Canterbury Cathedral, 60 miles east of London. Zadie Smith’s First Play Brings Chaucer to Her Beloved Northwest London 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z For nearly 150 years, a cloud has hung over the reputation of Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of “The Canterbury Tales,” long seen as the founder of the English literary canon. Chaucer the Rapist? Newly Discovered Documents Suggest Not. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Using the visual, audio, kinetic and print forms, her new lingo reads like a wild blend of Chaucer, SMS-speak and Anthony Burgess's droog slang. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z By causing the sensation it did, the Kelmscott Chaucer helped stoke a wider demand for fine printing. Kelmscott Press, a Thing of Iron Musculature, Is to Be Sold 2013-12-05T15:00:01Z Chaucer portrays a group of pilgrims on their way from London to the shrine of Thomas Beckett in Canterbury. Why did Chaucer not make it into Treasures of Heaven? 2011-08-05T13:31:37Z There are the incunabula — very early books, printed before 1500 — and, in a class by itself, the Kelmscott Chaucer, after the Gutenberg Bible probably the most famous feat of book printing ever. Looking Back on 50 Years of Making Beautiful Books 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z “If you don’t know Chaucer, or if you have no reference of Chaucer, you would enjoy it just as much,” Binder said. Zadie Smith’s Play to Make Its New York Debut During BAM’s Spring Season 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Everything from Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” to Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” have been challenged or have suffered at the hands of uptight editors. Critic?s Notebook: Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You 2011-01-06T23:26:12Z In the debate, Yale’s E. Talbot Donaldson championed an essentially humanistic approach to “Beowulf” and Chaucer, while Cornell’s Robert E. Kaske argued that theological commentary provides a master key to medieval imagery and meaning. Perspective | I did not spend my summer binge-watching TV. Here are the books I loved instead. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z A Gutenberg Bible from the 1450s and an illuminated manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are among the library’s gems. The 16 Best Small-Town Museums in the U.S. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Chesterton, the English "poll tax" rebellion, Geoffrey Chaucer and so forth. Comics: Annotated 'Sandman' enhances Neil Gaiman series 2012-01-05T19:20:04Z To say that the Kelmscott Chaucer is ornate is like saying that a peacock has tail feathers; true enough, but something of an understatement. Kelmscott Press, a Thing of Iron Musculature, Is to Be Sold 2013-12-05T15:00:01Z In a world where forced and child marriages are still all too common, it is important to reflect on Chaucer and Granson's visions. Valentine’s Day was reimagined by chivalrous medieval poets for all to enjoy, respectfully 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Witnessing her deliver a beatdown to a kid who disrespects Chaucer is truly a moment to savor. Through "The Chair" Sandra Oh and Amanda Peet take an academic view of cancel culture 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z He took a particular interest in medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," from which one of the most famous characters was that of a knight. Terry Jones dies at 77 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Aida Edemariam may not have intended the title of her book to recall the Wife of Bath, of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” She Didn’t Know How to Read, but Her Stories Captured History 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Geoffrey Chaucer wrote that it was "the bilge-hold of all wicked thoughts and of all trifles, jests, and filth." "Doing nothing" is all the rage — is it a form of resistance or just an indulgence for the lucky few 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Worth watching simply to see the man from the Guardian attempting to channel the spirit of Chaucer. Edinburgh festival: week two roundup 2011-08-22T15:29:22Z The creative freedom of nonsense words and language is a peculiarly English tradition, stretching back to Chaucer and Shakespeare. Phonics speaks to children's knack for nonsense 2012-11-19T13:31:18Z In 2003 she brought her effortless, perky glamour to a modern day reworking of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, appearing as a young pub singer in The Miller's Tale opposite Dennis Waterman as the landlord. Billie Piper: how to conquer the world before you're 30 2012-11-10T15:55:00Z The copy of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” that Uma Sinha brings with her to the Indian consulate ought to be a tip-off. Newly Released 2010-02-18T00:43:00Z We can laugh with Chaucer, refurbish Dover Castle and reinvent Richard III. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z You also become immersed in the language of Chaucer and Shakespeare. About Samantha Bee, Ivanka Trump and That Word 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z From Chaucer to Wodehouse to Waugh, the English sense of humour has always proudly been held dear and adored. Let's start a comedy crime wave 2010-08-03T10:36:00Z A character in “The Miller’s Tale” is a proto-Donald Trump: “he caught her by the quaint,” Chaucer writes. Ivanka Trump, Samantha Bee, and the Strange Path of an Ancient Epithet 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Textual representations of laughter go back at least to Chaucer, who fancied the onomatopoeic “haha” to convey merriment in his writing. Laugh and the World Laughs With You. Type ‘Ha,’ Not So Much. 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z And when you think about it, Bukowski and Chaucer, while separated by centuries, are actually not that far apart in terms of content. What do a Gutenberg Bible, Charles Bukowski and Paul Theroux have in common? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In Chaucer she is introduced as, “a worthy woman all her life.” Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The rite recapitulates, in terms reminiscent of Chaucer's Parson's Tale, medieval traditions of ring, joined hands and vows. The Book of Common Prayer, part 3 2010-09-06T09:30:00Z Both Chaucer and Shakespeare, for instance, borrowed from earlier tales to create their own masterpieces. Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Chaucer’s medieval classic unfolds as a storytelling battle among pilgrims traveling to the shrine of an English archbishop martyred in a church-and-state intrigue. She Didn’t Know How to Read, but Her Stories Captured History 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The odd oath, like a word that goes back to Chaucer's time, they will ask you to cut. Cannes: Ken Loach brands BBFC hypocritical over cuts to the c-word 2012-05-22T19:04:01Z Thus they are all, as in Chaucer, pilgrims on their way to a shrine, or, as in Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying,” an extended family crossing the landscape. Yes, Tommy Orange’s New Novel Really Is That Good 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z In the 14th century, Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, surely the most famous book about pilgrimage in world literature, and a classic of the middle ages. Why did Chaucer not make it into Treasures of Heaven? 2011-08-05T13:31:37Z Older women interested in sex have been the butt of derisive humor at least since Chaucer, but “Book Club” mostly avoids those cheap shots. Perspective | Don’t be so quick to dismiss ‘Book Club’ — or fans of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z And at a time when Latin and French dominated Western literature, Chaucer wrote in the vulgar vernacular of Middle English, the slang of its day. | ?The Canterbury Tales Remixed?: ?The Canterbury Tales Remixed? at SoHo Playhouse ? Review 2011-12-16T23:28:53Z This was at a time when my English classes were preparing me for English classes in college with Chaucer and Milton, and I pictured writing as some lost alchemy performed more or less by wizards. Literary Idol: Amelia Gray on Shirley Jackson 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z And if it weren’t for Albion No. 6551, Morris wouldn’t have had a Chaucer. Kelmscott Press, a Thing of Iron Musculature, Is to Be Sold 2013-12-05T15:00:01Z Despite Chaucer's masculine pronoun, it's well-known that, in the bird kingdom as well as elsewhere, the hens usually make such important decisions, and their judgement, with good evolutionary reason, is based on looks. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z The show, “Story, Memory and Myth,” includes pieces that explore classical stories ranging from Arthurian legends to the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. In Transit Blog: Former Astor Mansion in London Is Open to the Public 2011-12-21T11:00:27Z Mr. Muscatine’s “Chaucer and the French Tradition: A Study in Style and Meaning,” published by the University of California Press in 1957, remains an essential work for understanding one of England’s greatest poets. Charles Muscatine, Chaucer Scholar, Dies at 89 2010-03-20T05:13:00Z Lewis and Chaucer, whose tomb lies in the center of the space. Philip Larkin to Get a Memorial Stone in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z But the journey takes in Canterbury en route, where the travellers are impressed that the cathedral is 14 centuries old, six more than in Chaucer's day. Pubs in books 2010-07-08T13:37:00Z Lewis explained that 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer also helped lay out the present-day idea of Valentine’s day in his poem “The Parliament of Fowls.” Valentine's Day: Do you know the origins of the holiday? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Shakespeare is even braver than Chaucer in invoking this paradox, for he sometimes has his characters themselves deliver the envoi. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z If only the magazine had been around to sit down with Melville, or Chaucer, or Hardy. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Review Editor Frees Menagerie of Wordsmiths 2010-10-22T23:00:00Z Chaucer is seen less often because he’s busy writing a long poem about a religious pilgrimage. ‘The Invention of Fire’ is a thrillingly written 14th-century murder mystery 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Thankfully Mr. Brinkman’s passions for both hip-hop and Chaucer are infectious. | ?The Canterbury Tales Remixed?: ?The Canterbury Tales Remixed? at SoHo Playhouse ? Review 2011-12-16T23:28:53Z Chaucer's tale relates to an actual courtship that included three suitors and ended in the wedding of two 15-year-olds: Richard II and the princess Anne of Bohemia, in 1382. Valentine’s Day was reimagined by chivalrous medieval poets for all to enjoy, respectfully 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Outside were the carved heads of Shakespeare and Milton, Chaucer and Dante. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z The poem is a dream, like the dream visions in Chaucer or Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z The early manuscript, the so-called Hengwrt Chaucer, reflects the earliest attempts to circulate his tales in London. Original Chaucer manuscript online 2014-04-25T12:38:48Z The sheer quality of Muscatine’s reading continues to set an almost impossibly high standard, and virtually single-handedly he opened up Chaucer studies to France and Chaucer’s secular, French heritage. Charles Muscatine, Chaucer Scholar, Dies at 89 2010-03-20T05:13:00Z One of the ugliest blood libels in literature, Chaucer’s ferociously anti-Semitic Prioress’s Tale, begins with an invocation to Mary. ‘Picturing Mary’: Filled with highlights but flawed in its omissions The novelist, poet, essayist and literary critic will join the likes of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy who are either buried or commemorated in the famous location. Narnia author Lewis to be honored at Poets' Corner 2012-11-22T15:36:55Z The Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Gap-toothed and gossipy, the Wife of Bath travels to Canterbury with Chaucer's rabble of pilgrims. Jennie Rooney's top 10 women travellers in fiction 2010-06-23T12:23:00Z Chesterton favoured many writers – Chaucer, Shakespeare, Browning, Dickens – and there is something of a dark version of their abundance in these stories, in the figure of a man who imagines himself inside 100 murderers. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z But “The Wife of Willesden” also made crucial departures from Chaucer’s text. Zadie Smith’s First Play Brings Chaucer to Her Beloved Northwest London 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z But that is less than you might pay for a Kelmscott Chaucer. Kelmscott Press, a Thing of Iron Musculature, Is to Be Sold 2013-12-05T15:00:01Z Friar Hubert in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales Devoted to the principles of Francis of Assisi, the friars, who arrived in England in 1221, lived without possessions, travelling the country teaching, preaching and begging. Paul Murray's top 10 wicked clerics 2010-03-17T15:38:00Z The Wife, or Alison as Chaucer calls her, advocates for female pleasure and female autonomy and has some tart words regarding the prowess of her elderly husbands. Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z It is a self-testimonial by William Morris, at the expense of his subject; not the right way to encounter Chaucer. William Blake brought me face to face with my literary fundamentalism 2012-11-06T12:09:21Z Like Chaucer, Dickey tries to do justice to the long, circuitous route of the saint’s spiritual journey. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z My mother couldn’t get around the fact that I wouldn’t try and be Chaucer or Dostoyevsky. Mary Bly (aka Eloisa James) Talks to TIME About Her Literary Double Life 2012-05-18T11:00:52Z In this, he is matched only by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z To walk through land I’d only read about when studying Chaucer as an English major … that was incredible to me. A message in a bottle … and a journey round the world 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z In the poem "The Parliament of Fowls," Chaucer presents Valentine's Day as a day when birds gather to choose their mates under the supervision of nature. Valentine’s Day was reimagined by chivalrous medieval poets for all to enjoy, respectfully 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Chaucer's own father was kidnapped at age 12 by his aunt in an attempt to force him to marry her daughter in order to gain control over his inheritance. Valentine’s Day was reimagined by chivalrous medieval poets for all to enjoy, respectfully 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Chaucer was a bit of star in his day, for example, but still didn't undertake any broadcast interviews of which I am aware. These days, authors are also judged by their covers 2010-06-29T12:23:00Z I had encountered him — just as I had Langston Hughes and Jane Austen and Geoffrey Chaucer — by more conventional means the year prior, as an attentive reader of his published work. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Striking, too, was the ensemble’s expansive approach to “Angelus ad virginem,” a song popular enough in 13th-century England to rate a mention in Chaucer. Music Review: Early Music New York With Frederick Renz - Review 2011-12-26T22:37:30Z The topic has been treated more often in popular fare, including the humorous writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, Benjamin Franklin, and Mark Twain. Passing gas is an art and science 2012-08-23T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, Ellison — like Hughes and Austen and Chaucer — remained intangible to me, aloof, distanced both by time and by achievement. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Zarins’ debut, “Sometimes We Tell the Truth,” is a contemporary retelling of “The Canterbury Tales”; Robb’s latest, “A Conspiracy of Wolves,” features Chaucer as a character assisting medieval sleuth Owen Archer. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for January 2020 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Ten more European names grace the building’s sides – Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, and the like. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z At the library, she gets a “recording of a bloke reading Chaucer in the Old English.” Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z The first, from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, was written around 1400 as entertainment and likely reflected popular beliefs about the long- dead Mongol ruler. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z It seemed enough, perhaps, to make readers of Geoffrey Chaucer and his description of showery April in the Canterbury Tales, produce their own shower of tears. Few April showers seen Friday 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z It doesn’t matter if you’ve ever read Geoffrey Chaucer’s medieval classic “The Canterbury Tales.” Review | 600 years later, this ‘nasty woman’ is still stirring up trouble 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The first written reference to romance and St. Valentine’s Day was provided by poet Geoffrey Chaucer in 1382, the organization notes in a brief online history. Eager media orbits the UFO shootdowns 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z When Zadie Smith translates Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath” into a 21st century yarn told in a London pub by a middle-aged Jamaican-born British woman, the answer is a stone-cold yes. 10 books to add to your reading list in February 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The American writer Alison Lurie likened her to Chaucer's Wife of Bath: a storyteller who had been married several times and was practical, funny and wise. Fay Weldon obituary: Shrewd, mischievous and outspoken 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Chaucer Road in Cambridge was identified by Halifax as the most expensive street in the East of England at £4.2m per average home. Most expensive streets in England and Wales revealed 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The other, “The Wife of Bath,” is an illuminating analysis by Oxford University professor Marion Turner, who published a critically acclaimed biography of Chaucer in 2019. Review | 600 years later, this ‘nasty woman’ is still stirring up trouble 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z It may have been a rare turn in the headlines for Chaucer. Finding the New in the Old on the Intellectual Life Beat 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The document had helped inspire a rich vein of feminist criticism looking at sex, power and consent in Chaucer’s work. Your Friday Briefing 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z In Istanbul she speaks on the topic of Patient Griselda, the female Job in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Chaucer blasts into the novel on a bender and a dwindling book tour, arguing cluelessly against widespread comparisons between himself and Sylvia Plath’s husband, Ted Hughes. Review | ‘Bookish People’ is the perfect summer read for book lovers 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Through a creative process that Turner likens to alchemy, Chaucer created this striking character by simultaneously drawing on and subverting the popular misogynist writings of the era. Review | 600 years later, this ‘nasty woman’ is still stirring up trouble 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z But right now, I’m kicking myself for overlooking the best detail about the new Chaucer discovery. Finding the New in the Old on the Intellectual Life Beat 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z “It changed my life — his Chaucer course was absolutely the most illuminating thing for me,” Darnielle says. John Darnielle: musician, novelist, ethicist of the lurid 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Chaucer wrote that time and tide wait for no man. Mexican cross-country skier won't let pain, age or failure end her Olympic dream 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Like Hughes, Chaucer’s wife has died by suicide under the cloud of his many infidelities and a rumor that years ago he fathered a child he left behind. Review | ‘Bookish People’ is the perfect summer read for book lovers 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z But Chaucer’s portrayal of an independent woman is not just a response to historical circumstances. Review | 600 years later, this ‘nasty woman’ is still stirring up trouble 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Smith had translated Chaucer into contemporary English as a student at Cambridge University. Zadie Smith: My first play was an accidental adventure 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Geoffrey Chaucer, the 14th-century English poet, wrote of the budding anticipation when April with its showers sweet marks the end of winter. Savoring the sweet peach of memory — and the forbidden fruit of travel 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z “There was this insistence that you have to learn bedrock stuff, Chaucer and Spenser and Christopher Marlowe.” For novelist-podcaster Marlon James, it's Dead Writer Summer 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Clemi is convinced she is Chaucer’s daughter because her intimidating mother is his literary agent and the two have always been uncomfortably close. Review | ‘Bookish People’ is the perfect summer read for book lovers 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The increasing difficulty of Chaucer’s Middle English is another mark against it at a time when many students find even the language of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jane Austen too foreign to read. Review | 600 years later, this ‘nasty woman’ is still stirring up trouble 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z "A blank page is much more terrifying and I never had to deal with a blank page. I always had these handrails of Chaucer's, which was incredible. They're the best handrails you could hope for." Zadie Smith: My first play was an accidental adventure 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z However, the "adoption of fashionable garments by the clergy" was so common it was satirised by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales, said Dr Mitchell. Medieval pointy-toed shoes led to Cambridge bunion surge 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z That was perhaps enough to raise the nostalgia quotient among those who remember from school days how Geoffrey Chaucer opened “The Canterbury Tales.” It’s an April of showers now, with rain here for a fourth straight day 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Every other bookstore has canceled Chaucer’s appearances because of threats of angry protests, but Clemi is intent on holding his event at Sophie’s store in the hope of learning the truth about her parentage. Review | ‘Bookish People’ is the perfect summer read for book lovers 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Turner’s most audacious claim is that Chaucer created what we now think of as real people with interior minds in fiction. Review | 600 years later, this ‘nasty woman’ is still stirring up trouble 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Canterbury Tales Tree, for example, lists a GD of 1387, the year Geoffrey Chaucer began writing his tales. Rediscovered friends find trees, new strength amid pandemic 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Back beyond Chaucer, who can be said to have started the fashion for poets having names, this poem must have got into the heads of everyone who heard it. Clive James: 'The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life' 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z "Friendship turns to rivalry in this study of the intoxication and strangeness of love," is how the Royal Shakespeare Company described the play, which is based on Chaucer's The Knight's Tale. Shakespeare play found in Scots college in Spain 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z He appeared in Martin Scorsese’s 1978 film “The Last Waltz,” about the final concert of the rock group The Band, coming onstage to recite a portion of Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” in Middle English. Michael McClure, poet who helped define Beat generation, dies at 87 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z “Before Chaucer invented the Wife of Bath,” she writes, “there were no characters at all with the particular kind of subjectivity and personality that she embodies.” Review | 600 years later, this ‘nasty woman’ is still stirring up trouble 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z On screen, McClure appeared in Martin Scorsese’s seminal 1978 concert film “The Last Waltz” — perhaps the only rock documentary in which a poet reads lines by the Middle English author Geoffrey Chaucer. Michael McClure, the poet whose roar helped launch the 60s, dies at 87 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The key notion was one of development: poetry from Chaucer onwards had been written by people who had read the poets who came before them. Clive James: 'The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life' 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z The works of Chaucer, Petrarch and Christine de Pizan celebrate the uniqueness of the individual, savoring the moment and often drawing attention to the messiness of the human experience. The Black Death led to the demise of feudalism. Could this pandemic have similar repercussions? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z “Shakespeare and Chaucer, who lived through plagues that depopulated their country and city, remind me that great art can come out of great distress,” he wrote in the message. Amid COVID-19 isolation, Wyoming residents turn to the arts 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z He also did wonders for the clever revisioning of Chaucer: see the recent great piece by Marion Turner on The Conversation website. Terry Jones – a man who grasped the meaning of life 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z He studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and developed a lifelong interest in medieval history as a result of reading Chaucer. Terry Jones obituary 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Imprinted on my mind, the succession of explosions became an evocation of the heritage of English poets and poetry, from Chaucer onwards. Clive James: 'The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life' 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Both Jane Austen and Geoffrey Chaucer – who died in 1400 - used pronouns that way. So your friend came out as non-binary: here’s how to use pronouns they/them 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Ask any college student or professor why this big shift from studying Chaucer to studying coding is happening and they will probably tell you it’s about jobs. The world’s top economists just made the case for why we still need English majors 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Yet Jones is meshed more with Python than with Chaucer. Terry Jones – a man who grasped the meaning of life 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z “But it does suggest that, you know, a Ph.D. in Chaucer is not what people are thinking about,” said Mr. Cannon. 80% of Americans say top priority of K-12 education should be learning to read and write 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Examples of the singular "they" being used to describe someone features as early as 1386 in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and also in famous literary works like Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1599. A brief history of gender neutral pronouns 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The rooster is also a prominent character in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” Amid hurricane concerns, Coastal Carolina heads to Kansas 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The answer the knight comes back with in Chaucer’s tale, by the way, is “power”. Female desire is all the rage. But are the stories still too driven by men? | Stephanie Merritt 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Paradise is lost when they move to the murk of Birmingham; there he attends a formidable school, declaiming Chaucer by heart and growing close to a trio of like-minded students. Why Make Movies About Writers? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Part of the month’s showery reputation goes back at least to Geoffrey Chaucer. Nearly 2 weeks into the month, and not many April showers 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z In his poem “Parlement of Foules,” Chaucer imagines Valentine’s Day as the occasion for birds to convene and choose their mates. Five myths about Valentine’s Day 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Dr Turner is an associate professor at Jesus College, Oxford – and an expert on Chaucer and late medieval literature. Chaucer webchat: post a question now for expert Dr Marion Turner 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z He is also an unrepentant charlatan who’d fit right in with the merry rogues of Chaucer. Glen David Gold’s new memoir is ‘a soiree of heart-wreck wised up by humor’ 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in 1400, was buried in the abbey only because he served in the royal household. Stephen Hawking Enters ‘Britain’s Valhalla,’ Where Space Is Tight 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z In college, as an English major, I read many of the Greek classics, Chaucer, Shakespeare, a good number of the Romantics and the Victorians, plus a considerable amount of American literature. Books by immigrants, foreigners and minorities don’t diminish the ‘classic’ curriculum. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Literary historian Jack B. Oruch points out that the holiday had no romantic pretenses “either literary or social in customs, before Chaucer.” Five myths about Valentine’s Day 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z As the title suggests, it’s a major new biography, setting Chaucer in international contexts, and exploring the places he knew about. Chaucer webchat: post a question now for expert Dr Marion Turner 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Pages and pages on Chaucer and ions and the Ming dynasty and isosceles triangles and “The Scarlet Letter,” with notes of encouragement from my teachers written in fancy cursive lettering in the margins. Excavating My ’90s-Era Childhood Bedroom 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z In the 16th century, when Chaucer’s writing grew in popularity, literary figures began to feel that this was where they, too, belonged. Stephen Hawking Enters ‘Britain’s Valhalla,’ Where Space Is Tight 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The start of April - according to the poet Geoffrey Chaucer - brings showers of sweetness and the melody of the first birdsong. Will I be better or worse off in April? 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Geoffrey Chaucer appears to have been the first person to imbue St. Valentine’s feast day with romantic associations back in the 14th century. Five myths about Valentine’s Day 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The spirit trumpet is one of a number of arcane and intriguing objects in Linder’s exhibition, which is titled The House of Fame, in tribute to a Ben Jonson masque and Chaucer’s dream poem. 'Do you have any ectoplasm? Is it vaginal?' The return of punk artist Linder 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Gag-laden parodies of classics by Shakespeare, Chaucer and other literary giants go way, way, way back. Many shows in citywide Seattle Celebrates Shakespeare festival mix music and the Bard 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z “It is quicker to read Chaucer in a modern edition. But that personal thrill of touching and turning the pages of the original is incomparable. We all want to touch hands with history.” 'I really want to find it before I die': why are we so fascinated by lost books? 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z He argues that it alludes to Shakespeare’s burial alongside Beaumont, Chaucer and Spenser, who are buried “in precisely that order” in Poet’s Corner. I can prove that 'William Shakespeare' is buried in Westminster Abbey – scholar 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Consequently, the success of “Albion” derives from its understanding that in English literary history, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Tom Stoppard via Andrew Marvell, a garden is seldom just a garden. “Albion” is a state-of-the-nation play for Brexit Britain 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z It was fashionable centuries ago, turning up in Chaucer — “olde dotard shrewe” — and Shakespeare — “I speak not like a dotard nor a fool” — among literary greats. 'Dotard' rockets from obscurity to light up Trump-Kim exchange, spark partisan war of words 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z To complement the Shakespeare, there is a 1587 edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles, which is widely believed to have provided inspiration for Shakespeare’s history plays, and a 1561 edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Historic Irish library could make more than £1.8m at auction 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z In this, the album has more in common with the first great work of British culture, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, than it does with much of American psychedelia. Sgt Pepper at 50: How the Beatles masterpiece could unite Brexit Britain 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Josh Bell, a poetry workshops teacher at the school, told the newspaper that Mr. Shaw used Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” as an “intellectual overlay” to tell stories “critical of American society and racial politics.” Harvard history: Obasi Shaw first student to ace senior thesis with rap album 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Yet that euphemism is present in Chaucer and Shakespeare. Ill-gotten gains – why Americanisms are a boon for the British 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z A salute to the European solstice revels celebrated for centuries, with a debt to Ovid and Chaucer tales, “Midsummer” spins a gossamer web of passions and high jinks in several realms. Review: Seattle Shakes’ ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is missing some of its magic 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Handler and Brown found each other in a Chaucer class at Wesleyan University. ‘Lemony Snicket’ back in Seattle with a tale of loss, love — and goldfish 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Chaucer’s inclusion of all aspects of medieval British society transformed Canterbury Tales from a miscellaneous collection into a portrait of England. Sgt Pepper at 50: How the Beatles masterpiece could unite Brexit Britain 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z We understand Chaucer because our own strain of English evolved from it. Not just dwingey chimbles: dialects are alive and kicking 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z I work as a poet and translator and would find it inconceivable to read Chaucer without being aware of the figures of Dante and Boccaccio in the background, or Shakespeare without Plutarch. Translation – and migration – is the lifeblood of culture | George Szirtes 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z What was England like in the days of Chaucer, father of English literature, who died more than 600 years ago? There is no such thing as western civilisation | Kwame Anthony Appiah 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z “We’re going to have to work on this,” I told them, “like you’d work on a page of Chaucer, going over it again and again until we understand it.” Beyond Bob Dylan: authors, poets and musicians pick their favourite songwriter 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Like Chaucer’s stories and Sgt Pepper’s songs, they are more than the sum of their parts. Sgt Pepper at 50: How the Beatles masterpiece could unite Brexit Britain 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z When Geoffrey Chaucer wrote of the “young girls of the diocese” in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales in the late 1300s, he wasn’t just talking about young women. 10 words that don't mean what they used to: when meerkats were monkeys and bimbos were boys 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Among her replies was a tirade of curses that Thompson said came from Shakespeare and Chaucer, then Yiddish and Russian. Zelda Fichandler, larger than life in memorial celebration 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z She did an overview of Chaucer, Shakespeare, how the old theaters were set up, and a few other interesting things. Fortress of Tedium: What I Learned as a Substitute Teacher. 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z You could find reference to it in Homer and Virgil, Chaucer and Shakespeare. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton and Geoffrey Chaucer all call the Abbey their final place of rest, joined by politicians like Oliver Cromwell. TRAVEL: London sites to see in two days 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z At lunch, they sat around a table in the staff canteen, gossiping and painting their lips, while I lurked nearby reading the complete works of Chaucer and eating slices of toast. ‘I burst into tears and ran’: our worst summer jobs 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z It would still feature the likes of Plato and Chaucer. Dead white dudes don’t corner the market on words of wisdom 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The going rate for a first edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer today is more than £30,000, but it was not cheap in the 1890s, either. William Morris: a Victorian socialist dreaming of a life in symmetry 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z “Under this standard, titles as varied, valuable, and time-honored as Anne Frank’s ‘The Diary of a Young Girl,’ Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales,’ and most works by William Shakespeare could be flagged,” the letter said. In Virginia classrooms, should parents block sexually explicit literature for their kids? 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Chaucer possibly chose to set his poem on this day in order to commemorate another St. Valentine from Genoa whose feast day fell in May. The True Story Behind Valentine's Day 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Chaucer’s late 14th century poem Parliament of Foules mentions Valentine’s Day as the time when birds selected their mates, though not all scholars agree he was necessarily referring to our Feb. 14 date. Valentine's Day Backlash Is Older Than You Think 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z You don’t need to learn a trade—you need to read Chaucer! The Ford Foundation’s Quest to Fix the World 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Morris published exquisitely beautiful editions of Chaucer, and his own poems and utopian writings. William Morris: a Victorian socialist dreaming of a life in symmetry 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Nearly all from both parties had been going since breakfast and chatted excitedly in an English as recognizable to the American ear as Chaucer, leaving me nodding politely without riposte in our conversations. On the tiles with Tyson Fury: my heavyweight night out in New York 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z In English apothecary meaning pharmacist was well established by the time of Chaucer in the late 14th Century. The Vocabularist: How did the word 'boutique' become so ubiquitous? - BBC News 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z He’s read the great classics as well — Chaucer, for example — and is amused that people living in rural outbacks didn’t spend their college years in Middle English seminars. Discovering the Deep South’s cliches all over again 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z A blithe generalization, ignoring the vibrantly secular sensibilities of the troubadours, Marie de France, Geoffrey Chaucer, Giovanni Boccaccio and many other writers of the Middle Ages. Spiritual leader of a medieval city in crisis 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Blue said he hoped to “modernize the language of the original records” while retaining “the original’s distinctive voice,” which is as difficult, he said, as “translating Chaucer into modern English.” Judge publishes book on little-known 17th century Ct. trials 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z When a teacher explained to my class how “bawdy” Chaucer was, we stupidly didn’t believe her. Forget EL James, let’s have some real dirty fiction 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z He also served as England's ambassador to the Roman court, and joined Chaucer and Petrarch at a wedding feast for King Edward III's son. Book Talk: Back to the future with 21st century soldiers of fortune 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Poets’ Corner was established at Westminster Abbey after the remains of Geoffrey Chaucer, widely considered the greatest poet of the Middle Ages, were interred there in 1556. Philip Larkin honoured with Westminster Abbey memorial 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Poets' Corner became established at Westminster Abbey after Geoffrey Chaucer's remains were interred in a tomb there in 1556. Philip Larkin to get Poets' Corner memorial - BBC News 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Fundament can also mean bottom - very rudely, in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale. The Election Vocabularist: Unfunded, opinion and poll - BBC News 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Chaucer wrote of Chanticleer, the golden-voiced rooster who quite literally fell prey to false praise when a wily fox appealed to his vanity. Obama doesn’t have to say he loves us 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in The Canterbury Tales that “on a Friday fell all this mischance.” Here are 13 Things to Know About Friday the 13th 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z At Harvard, Lynch majored in English and American literature and loved reading Chaucer in Old English. By way of Brooklyn, a “Southern steel magnolia” is poised to become attorney general 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The Folger Consort and the Lionheart vocal ensemble perform country music from the Chaucer era in Middle English and Latin and on period instruments. Religion events from around the Washington area 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z The first part, “don’t throw stones at glass houses,” is a generic proverb around since the days of Chaucer. Obama Misquotes the Bible Defending Immigration Action 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z There is very little faking in the society described by Homer, for example, or in that described by Chaucer. Has modern art exhausted its power to shock? 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z She went on to Harvard, where she studied English and loved Chaucer, and then to Harvard Law School. Who is Loretta Lynch? 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Whole worlds opened up to me — philosophy, which I never would have read had I not been forced to; the clotted verses of Chaucer; and, of course, the aforementioned anthropology, both cultural and physical. Richard Cohen: The actual value of a college education “There are plenty of examples of people where you’re able to enjoy the literature before interviews. Unless people go: ‘Oh God, Chaucer, he needed to be humanised. Richard Ayoade: ‘Shyness can be interpreted as a kind of aggression’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Lewis adapts the title of Chaucer's poem to describe a council of owls who meet at night to discuss the affairs of Narnia. Ten of the best collective nouns 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z There are works by Kierkegaard and Ovid, Chaucer and Cummings. Home of Cheever, Chekhov of the Suburbs, Is for Sale 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Before coming to the UK, I enjoyed reading Shakespeare or even Chaucer in the original, but had no idea of how to conclude an email. Readers who lost fluency in their language 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z A quarter of Saturday's line-up of 16 horses are Coolmore-owned with Orchestra and Kingfisher also sons of Galileo, while their O'Brien colleague Geoffrey Chaucer is a descendant of the late stallion Montjeu. Meet the daddy - the world's most sought-after stallion 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Stablemates Geoffrey Chaucer, Orchestra and Kingfisher are among a field of 16 in the famous Classic. O'Brien seeks to make Derby history 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Chaucer’s immense contribution of thousands of written words, with many originals, gave us “bagpipe” and universe,” while Moore contributed “anticipate” and “fact.” The Origins of Writerly Words 2014-04-30T22:22:07Z Going even further back, they were the doctor, lawyer and clerk in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, he says. The evolution of the middle class 2014-01-16T03:04:47Z Paul Humphries, 41, was found outside a property on the corner of Chaucer Crescent and Prior Close on Thursday. Pond death man named by police 2013-12-27T14:01:41Z What impresses Dasani most are not the architectural details or the gold-bound volumes of Chaucer and Tolstoy, but the astonishing lack of dust. Homeless Girl in the Shadows 2013-12-09T07:26:35Z The stone will be placed in Poets' Corner, alongside renowned literary figures including Chaucer and Dickens. Poets' Corner honour for CS Lewis 2013-11-22T02:11:32Z He returned to Grenada to teach high school, where he liked to quote Shakespeare and Chaucer in his commanding voice. Paul Scoon, Who Invited Grenada Invaders, Dies at 78 2013-09-09T02:27:58Z “They are not debating Chaucer; they are debating product features,” says Mr. Sarhan, who graduated from Pace University. Enstitute, an Alternative to College for a Digital Elite 2013-05-04T18:08:01Z Chaucer noted that when April awakens into summer "people long to go on pilgrimages". From Greenland to Mount Everest, this is the season of reckless jaunts 2013-05-02T20:00:03Z And this official competition selection takes in literary giants such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley and Hardy. Pupils compete in learning poetry 2013-01-08T09:58:40Z An uncharacteristically genial Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presided over proceedings, somehow managing to draw attention to his knowledge of Chaucer and enjoying a Question-and-Answer session with the journalists. Conditions ripe for Netanyahu election win 2012-12-20T03:13:42Z Photograph: Alamy Geoffrey Chaucer would recognise Canterbury today, from the towering cathedral – England's oldest – ruined abbey, castle, churches and city walls. Olympic runs: the best places to stay for the Games within easy reach of London 2012-06-29T21:46:01Z Incidentally the latter bears out Chaucer’s description of the Friar, who was so fond of harping. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The science of medicine since Chaucer’s day has made extraordinary advances, and it is only fair to judge his doctor by contemporary standards. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Since Chaucer, English poetry had practically stood still, and except where poetry has cleared the way, prose does not in ordinary circumstances advance. Against War 2012-04-21T02:00:21.397Z Here again his literary craftsmanship saves him from the disaster which must have overcome another poet in undertaking to continue the part of the story which Chaucer had intentionally left untold. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z For the relationship of Chaucer’s anecdote to those in Latin see Skeat, note in his edition, Lounsbury, Studies in Chaucer, 1892, ii. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z This was the ne plus ultra of feudal table manners; Chaucer might have been writing one of those books of deportment for the guidance of aristocratic young women, which were so numerous in France. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z To this practice Chaucer alludes in another of his poems, the “House of Fame.” The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z From Chaucer to Tennyson there is not a sterling line in it which could have been what it is if it had been composed in any part of the Western continent. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The current form of English heroic verse appears to be the invention of Chaucer, who used it in his Legend of Good Women and afterwards, with still greater freedom, in the Canterbury Tales. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Hence partlet, a hen, on account of the ruffled feathers, a term used alike by Chaucer and Shakespeare. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z It was often difficult to collect these payments, just as it was often difficult to collect tithes, even when a priest was less loth to curse for them than Chaucer’s poor parson. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z We have from the graphic hand of Chaucer a life-like portrait of a medical man of the fourteenth century who had gained his money in the time of pestilence. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z The reign of Edward III. shows a revival in art and letters, and the patron of Chaucer adorned the Chapel of St. Stephen, Westminster, with the best works of native artists. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z The scholar in Chaucer is described as going ——‘Sounding on his way.’ Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z Those in which the foundations of modern Europe were laid, which produced parliaments, cathedrals, cities, Dante and Chaucer, were grouped alike on one dismal level and christened the middle ages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z A good ruler of her house? doubtless; but when Chaucer met her the house was ruling itself somewhere at the “shires ende.” Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z And in none of these pictures does Chaucer excel himself more than in that of his “Doctor of Physic.” The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Chaucer. µ Accident, in Law, is equivalent to casus, or such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The most remarkable example which occurs to us is in the beginning of the Flower and Leaf, by Chaucer, and in the modernisation of the same passage by Dryden. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z In Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale three riotous young men of Flanders are drinking one day at a tavern. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Not all prioresses were, like Chaucer’s, “ful plesaunt and amiable of port.” Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Chaucer’s grave graduate was apparelled in a purple surcoat, and a blue and white furred hood. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Chaucer. µ All is much used in composition to enlarge the meaning, or add force to a word. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Compared with Chaucer, Dryden and the rest of that school were merely verbal poets. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z In point of fact, we cannot say that even the conception of an artistic prose has occurred to English literary endeavor until long after Chaucer. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z It is interesting to notice that the Roman de la Rose, of which Chaucer translated a fragment, contains some remarks upon this subject which are almost paraphrased in his description of Madame Eglentyne. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Her gentle endurance of her domestic trials recalls to mind the character of one who may almost be styled her contemporary, the "patient Griselda," so immortalized by Chaucer and Boccacio. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z An excellent series of stories from Chaucer and others. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z The clarre, or piment, of Chaucer’s time was wine mixed with honey and spices, and strained till clear; a similar drink was bracket, made with wort of ale instead of wine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Listen, for example, to the first lines of that one of Chaucer's Canterbury series which he calls The Parson's Tale, and which is in prose throughout. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z But Caesarius of Heisterbach has two anecdotes of weaker brethren which show how exactly Chaucer described the anguish of a troubled heart. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z It is the simple unbounded faith of the Middle Ages, such as we find in the old European legends and poems and mysteries, such as your poetess Mrs. Browning well marks in Chaucer. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z The most notable facts in the history of the times of Edward III, of Elizabeth, and of Victoria are that Chaucer and Shakespeare and Tennyson and their contemporaries lived and wrote. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z We may choose to call Chaucer's "Canterbury Pilgrims" an epic, if we will, but even so we cannot avoid the feeling that it is a sequence of ballads. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z But in Chaucer's time there is no art of English prose. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z The doctor then proceeds to show, by the deaths of various illustrious persons, that a similar rule holds good with the generality of mankind: Chaucer, 25th October 1400, the day of the first quarter. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Many a flower lover since Chaucer has felt as did the poet:— "The savour of the Roses swote Me smote right to the herte rote." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Chaucer, who knew the word only as meaning “liquid,” has left a masterpiece of humour in his prologue to the Canterbury Pilgrims. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z His favorite poem, he has told me, is Chaucer's "Ballad of Good Counsel." The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Geoffrey Chaucer, Esquire, of the age of forty and upwards, armed for twenty-seven years, produced on behalf of Sir Richard Scrope, sworn and examined. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z It appears from this quaint and satirical picture, that, in our Chaucer’s days, astrology formed part of a physician’s study. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z As from Florence humanism invaded English letters, so the Averroistic physician of Padua became known, even in Chaucer’s day, as a man of secular rather than of Scriptural learning. Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z His refined critical perception had detected the superiority of Chaucer’s versification, as adapted to the present state of the language by Dryden, over the sententious epigrammatic couplet of Pope which had superseded it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Now, I doubt if any of you know the rhyme for "babe," unless you happen to be familiar with this poem of Swinburne's or with those of Chaucer, who also used this word. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z That they were in common use in Chaucer’s time is obvious from the poet’s description of the one borne by Sire Thopas, the tower and lily. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z The explanation may be found on family tradition, for Dr. Skeat says "It is probable that the Chaucer family came originally from Norfolk." Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z The grey friar of the fourteenth century, as we know him in Langland and Chaucer, or later in the degraded fanaticism of the Observants, had fallen far from the example of his master. Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z The incident is referred to by Chaucer in the Prioresses Tale and by Marlowe in the Jew of Malta. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Besides writing the foregoing original books, he assisted on the continuation of Holinshed’s Chronicle and Speght’s edition of Chaucer, and he was employed on other undertakings. England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z ‘Wastel-brede’ is defined in the glossary to Chaucer, as bread made of the finest flour, and derived from the French ‘gasteau.’ The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z The first reason was that East Anglian antiquaries have long cherished the tradition that Chaucer was born in Norfolk. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Shakespeare, of course, ranges himself in line with Chaucer. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z By the way, there was one ministerial weakness from which Chaucer's parson was free,—the love of alliteration. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, all these were innovators or developers of what may be known as formal metre. Irradiations; Sand and Spray 2012-02-14T03:00:28.347Z What the origin of this figure may have been does not appear, although the word potent, in the sense of crutch, was common in the days of Chaucer. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Of the various accounts of a quaint custom, mentioned in Piers Plowman and by Chaucer, I prefer that given by Leland, for its brevity. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Browning is the nineteenth-century heir of Chaucer; but it is doubtful whether Chaucer would recognize his own offspring, so remarkable has the development been in those five centuries. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z It is a way of looking at things characteristic of men like Chaucer and Cervantes and Montaigne and Shakespeare, and Bunyan and Fielding and Addison, Goldsmith, Charles Lamb and Walter Scott. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z I looked round with a start, and a living line from old Chaucer, in golden letters, hung bright before me—"Her glad eyes." Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z Such vestments were not peculiar to the military, with whom we must always associate the heraldry of the earliest times; for, so lately as the time of Chaucer, they were the favourite fashion of civilians. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z The quotations from Chaucer and Piers Plowman have been used too often in "seasonable articles" to be repeated here. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Morris tells his at equal length in a manner suggestive of Chaucer without Chaucer’s snap, but where among them all is there such a bit of stinging life as in “Pheidippedes” or “Echetlos?” Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Chaucer has rendered several passages beautifully, and similar fragments are embedded in Milton and others. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z I had not, as yet, sufficiently recovered from my astonishment to venture a word, so I merely bowed, and read anew old Chaucer's glowing line. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z Poetry is not excluded; our own sweet bards, from good old Chaucer, that “father of English poetry,” down to the soft strains of Mrs. Hemans, or L. E. L., rank among its selections. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z The practical common-sense of Englishmen never took very kindly to the alchemical delusion, and Chaucer very faithfully describes the contempt with which it was generally regarded. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Readers of Chaucer will remember how comfortably, and even luxuriously, he represents his monk in the Canterbury Tales as being dressed. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Thus Dante's poem was a Divine Comedy, and Chaucer in the Monk's Prologue summed up the accepted opinion of the scholarship of his day. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The thwitel or whittle of Chaucer’s time was a very poor rude implement, consisting of a blade of bar steel fastened into a wooden or horn handle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z —What is, or was, the original pronunciation of the name of the poet Chaucer? Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-30T03:00:13.383Z Chaucer in the next century tells how the streets in royal processions were "hanged with cloth of gold and not with serge." The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Readers of Chaucer will remember how comfortably, and even luxuriously, the monk of his "Canterbury Tales" is dressed. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Fuseli's acquaintance with English poetry and literature was very extensive; few men recollected more of the text, or understood better the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton, and Dryden. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z It is delightful to be able to appeal to Chaucer for perhaps the most emphatic compliment to law, in respect to its capacity for literature, that it has ever received. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z J. C. W. We are not sure what our correspondent means by Chaucer Forgery. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-30T03:00:13.383Z Geniuses like Dante, Chaucer, and Shakespeare appear without our being able to account for them, and for aught we know another may appear at any moment. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z The present mill, however, is not on the actual site of Chaucer's, which stood some quarter of a mile higher up the stream. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z “Well,” said I, “I think I have read that story in Dryden, and believe he took it from Chaucer.” Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Good Master Chaucer for this touch we offer hearty thanks! Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z The gillyflower of Chaucer and Spenser and Shakespeare was, as in Italy, Dianthus Caryophyllus; that of later writers and of gardeners, Matthiola. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z The people of old Chaucer's times Were once in raptures with his rhymes, But Time—that over verse prevails, To other ears tells other tales. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z He lectured on Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Cervantes, and delighted his audiences. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z Is there not here a note that suggests the opening of "The Nonne Preestes Tale," even though the story which follows is quite unlike Chaucer's? The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z He starts away back with Chaucer--'well of English undefyled,'--Spenser, you know, Faerie Queene--and he brings us right down to Robert Louis Stevenson. Dick Randall The Young Athlete 2012-01-04T03:00:45.467Z In his "Jamaica Funeral" he has pictured a hypocritical priest in colors as vivid almost as Chaucer's. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z Tryst is a post or station in hunting, according to Cowell as quoted in Tyrwhitt's Glossary to Chaucer, but Walter Scott uses it for a place of appointment generally. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z In short, the plan for the Caxton Memorial, and that for the restoration of Chaucer's Monument, have well nigh failed. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-26T03:00:11Z Dante was known, of course, to Chaucer and to the Elizabethans and Milton, and his influence on English poetry was perhaps even greater than Dr. Toynbee's record makes evident. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z The "Sheffield whittle" is as old as the time of Edward III., as we know from the poet Chaucer. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Burgess, afterwards the Bishop of St. David's and Salisbury, to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the editor of Chaucer, dated Corp. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z So Chaucer says of Mirth in the "Romaunt of the Rose": He seemed like a portreiture, So noble was he of his stature. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z The money in hand is said to be far short of the sum necessary to erect a statue or to print the works; if so, why not repair Chaucer's tomb with it? Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-26T03:00:11Z Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Seneca seem to be his favorite hobbies. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Chaucer alludes to this usage when in his “Canterbury Tales” he says of the wife of Bath— “She was a worthy woman all her live, Husbands at the church dore had she five.” Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z William Morris, "our sweet and simple Chaucer's child," appeals to him strangely. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The passage in Chaucer illustrates the passage before us. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Chaucer followed Petrarch’s version in the Canterbury Tales. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Chaucer accepted a 292 million pound offer from Hanover Insurance, while Brit Insurance succumbed last year to a bid from buyout firms Apollo and CVC. UPDATE 2-Omega holds firm as suitor seeks price cut 2011-12-02T17:04:34Z His position as a poet and maker of language is analogous to that of Dante in Italy and Chaucer in England. Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z Hende Nicholas, in Chaucer's "Miller's Tale," is, it must be admitted, a lively and adventuring youth; but he might have been much livelier without being untrue to student life in chamberdekyns. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z Chaucer in like manner says of the carpenter's wife, "Canterbury Tales," v. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Smith still vividly remembers being insulted by the teacher of a Chaucer class. At Cal-Berkeley, challenging sterotypes of NCAA athletes as students 2011-11-24T23:51:18Z Was the author possibly of the ploughman's kindred, like Chaucer's parish priest in The Canterbury Tales? Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z The exquisite tale which Chaucer has put into the mouth of the Prioress exhibits nearly the same incidents as the following ballad. English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z I have no doubt it was the cordial Chaucer calls Ypocras, which seems to have brought joy to his warm old heart. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z I was literally brought up on Carlyle and Chaucer. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z An Arabian Homer or Chaucer must have condescended to prose. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z The Praise of Peace appeared in the early folio editions of Chaucer, and has been edited also by Dr Skeat in his Chaucerian and other Pieces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Afterwards we are alone, and after reading a little Herodotus, Shelley reads Chaucer’s Flower and the Leaf, and then Chaucer’s Dream to me. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z It was like a breath from Chaucer's England. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z As the date of these visions preceded Chaucer twenty years, the author must be considered the first English poet. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z He was more successful with his Life of Chaucer, for which he received �600. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Chaucer's Prioress had evidently studied the sections on table proprieties, and her gentility, which was so tender-hearted, might well have been developed under the admonishments of the ethical passages which often accompanied them. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z I would almost say of him what Dryden said of Chaucer: "He is a perpetual fountain of good sense." Rambles with John Burroughs 2011-10-22T02:00:31.317Z Did I know any line of Chaucer that would hit off Alfred the Great? An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z "What asketh man to have?" cried Chaucer, and goes on to say in bitterest words that "now with his love" he must soon lie in "the cold� grave—alone, withouten any companie." Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z It is thus used in Piers Plowman, where, however, the goliard still rhymes in Latin, and in Chaucer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Yet Chaucer had a superior, in the sympathetic eye and adequate expression for the stern and stormy phases of nature, in a countryman of whom perhaps he never heard. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Boccaccio's "Decameron" is a series of splendidly told tales, from which Chaucer drew much besides his inspiration. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Chaucer's "Reeve's Tale" gives us a glimpse into "Soler Halle at Cantebregge," from which it would appear that the members were quite as loose and free as Hende Nicholas, their Oxford contemporary. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z It was originally written— "Awake and faithful to her wonted fires," which has but little to do with Chaucer. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-10-19T02:00:23.307Z The Ghosts with eyes of flame and saucer Are now as obsolete as Chaucer; No Ghosts now rattle chains, nor blue light Emit, but "Spirit Lights"—a new light. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 2011-10-18T02:00:20.750Z Chaucer wrote nothing so spiritual, though much of course more artistic and poetically valuable. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z This "Mirror" was of great fame and influence in its day; and the "Induction," though far inferior to both Chaucer and Spenser, is yet the best poetic work done in the time between those masters. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Not a few of the Canterbury Tales are taken directly from fabliaux; indeed, Chaucer, with the possible exception of Prior, is our nearest approach to a fabliau-writer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Malone observes that it occurs in Chaucer and Skelton, and also in Sir Thomas More, Works, p. 21., edit. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-10-19T02:00:23.307Z Astronomy in the Middle Ages The conspicuousness of astronomical lore in the poetry of Chaucer is due to its importance in the life of his century. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z What would a Suffolk miller’s swain have said if I had repeated to him verses out of Beowulf or even Chaucer, and had asked him about the residence of Skelton?” Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z Italy, in Chaucer's century, produced a noble literature. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Chaucer was also one of the prince’s suite. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z It still possesses a twofold literary interest, first as one of the most popular books of the time, and secondly as the source, directly or indirectly, of later literature, in Chaucer, Gower, Shakespeare and others. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z Furthermore, the belief in a geocentric system of the universe, which in Chaucer’s century was almost universally accepted, was of vast significance in man’s way of thinking. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z Now Gray was an antiquary, and there is no doubt too well read in Chaucer. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-23T02:00:20.637Z From them Virgil, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Rabelais, Molière, Shakspeare, Calderon, and a host of others have drawn their inspiration. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine; That mark upon his lip is wine. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z Commentators have wasted reams of paper in an endeavour to determine what Chaucer meant by this. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z Chaucer’s Scientific Knowledge It was in the fourteenth century that Chaucer lived and wrote, and his interest in astronomical lore is, therefore, not surprising. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z If Mr. Morris's poem may be said to remind us of the manner of any other writer, it is simply of that of Chaucer; and to resemble Chaucer is a great safeguard against resembling Swinburne. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z He was arrested one day before a pencil sketch of a new and hitherto untreated subject—the Procession of Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z Probably, therefore, the use of the wood of the maple for bowls and drinking-cups prevailed in this country many centuries before the times of Spenser and Chaucer, in whose works they are mentioned. Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-12T02:00:27.427Z Chaucer translates Boethius, five hundred years after King Alfred’s translation. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z There is every reason to suppose that, so far as it satisfied his purposes, Chaucer had made himself familiar with the whole literature of astronomical science. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z For the most part the spirit of this building work was informal, romantic, and na�ve; it partook of things not according to rule; it breathed Chaucer. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Chaucer was also cheerfully conspicuous, and, towards the close of Blake’s life, Dante’s “Divine Comedy” came to join the silent company in the bookshelves. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z It will be noted how nearly this diet accords with that of the widow and her daughter in Chaucer’s “Nuns’ Priest’s Tale”; cf. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z But it was the French Roman de Troie, written in the twelfth century, which spread the story everywhere—the source of innumerable Troy Books in all languages, and of Chaucer’s and Shakespeare’s Troilus. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Even more convincing evidence of Chaucer’s knowledge of the scientific literature of his time is given in his Treatise on the Astrolabe. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z You will find it mentioned by Chaucer, Shakspere, and many another of lesser note. Holidays & Happy-Days 2011-08-27T02:00:21.840Z He acknowledged Chaucer as his master, and differed from the earlier poets of the school of Surrey and Wyatt chiefly in the added smoothness and sweetness of his verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z In the sense in which the phrase is often used, as a mere political or social catchword, it lay for Chaucer, as for us, in the haze of an imaginary past. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z One has only to remember Chaucer’s Pilgrims to understand this, and to realize how absurd is any fixed line of division between ranks, with regard to their literary taste. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Chaucer’s Cosmology Chaucer wrote no poetical work having a cosmographical background as completely set forth as is that in Dante’s Divine Comedy or that in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z He also established and conducted the Chaucer, Ballad, New Shakespeare and Wyclif Societies, and at a later period societies for the special study of Browning and Shelley. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" were related by a party of pilgrims who were making this journey, presumably near the close of the fourteenth century. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z Let us remember, then, that Chaucer fought in two French campaigns, identical in kind and not even differing much in degree from the invasion of 1346 which Froissart describes. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z The average ‘reading public’ of Chaucer’s time could understand a great many different varieties of verse and prose. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z It is the view held by the educated men of his century that Chaucer’s poetry chiefly reflects. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z The metre of Lancelot’s lament is that of Chaucer’s “Cuckoo and Nightingale,” and was very possibly copied from it. Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance 2011-07-27T02:00:29.703Z It may also be observed that Chaucer's immortal work, "The Canterbury Tales," depends for its connecting thread upon the once general custom of making pilgrimages to the tomb of Becket. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z One criminal, who might possibly even have rubbed shoulders with Chaucer in London, pleaded that he had taken sanctuary and been torn from the altar. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Again, Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women, the story of Dido, or of Pyramus and Thisbe, may serve as a reminder how impossible it is to separate ‘romantic’ from ‘classical’ literature. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The Harmony of the Spheres Some of the cosmological ideas reflected in Chaucer’s writings can be traced back to systems older than the Ptolemaic. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z If by aryeit is here meant the sign, not the constellation of Aries, the day referred to is April 1 or 2, according to Chaucer’s “Astrolabie.” Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance 2011-07-27T02:00:29.703Z Because it was, in Chaucer's time, as it now is, nearly upon the line of the ecliptic. 3rd. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 83, May 31, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc 2011-07-26T02:00:17.693Z But the custom died hard; or rather, it was probably rebaptized, like so many other relics of paganism; and the change seems to have taken place during Chaucer’s lifetime. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z All through the time between the Norman Conquest and Chaucer one feels that the Court is what determines the character of poetry and prose. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Only one of Chaucer’s many references to the cardinal points need be mentioned. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z It gave historical details of the city of London; there were references to Roman charioteers and the Olympic games, extracts from Chaucer and other authors equally respectable. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z Because its situation in longitude, about two-thirds in the sign Leo, just tallies with Chaucer's expression "yet ascending,"—that is, one-third of the sign was still below the horizon. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 83, May 31, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc 2011-07-26T02:00:17.693Z There is, of course, no such dogmatic infidelity in Chaucer. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z But he fails in his choice of verse; he translates the French couplets of Ipomedon into a form of stanza, like that which Chaucer burlesques in Sir Thopas. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Chaucer’s allusions to heaven, hell and purgatory are frequent but chiefly incidental and give no such definite idea of their location as we find in the Divine Comedy. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z So far as I had knowledge, I was like the parson of Chaucer, who— "Christ's love and his Apostles twelve Taught, and first he followed it himselve." Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Here, again, is the recipe for mortrews, a dish mentioned in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z Even in Chaucer’s time Englishmen took their pleasures sadly in comparison with Frenchmen and Italians. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z But though a minstrel’s poem it is far from rude, and it is quite free from the ordinary faults of rambling and prosing, such as Chaucer ridiculed in his Geste of Sir Thopas. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The word purgatory seldom occurs in a literal sense in Chaucer’s poetry, but the figurative use of it is frequent. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z Chaucer, like Herodotus, is a story-teller, and follows the lead of those who on the Continent entertained courtly circles with pleasant tales. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The former, of course, had nothing like the range of minds like Chaucer, or Shakespeare, or Browning, or the great novelists. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The system was, indeed, notoriously faulty, and did much to encourage that venality in the clerical courts which moved Chaucer’s laughter and the indignation of his contemporaries. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z There is a large group of rhyming romances which might be named after Chaucer’s Sir Thopas—the companions of Sir Thopas. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Chaucer uses the idea of paradise for poetical purposes quite as often as that of purgatory. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z The nation of Lessing, Goethe and Schiller schools its children in a gospel of hate toward the nation of Shakespeare and Milton and a long line of glorious poets from Chaucer to Browning. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z There is no reason to suppose that Wordsworth undervalued or objected to the subjects of such poets as Homer and Virgil, Chaucer and Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z If he had died at the age of fifty or thereabouts, towards the beginning of Chaucer’s business career, posterity would have known him only as the most distinguished English philosopher of his time. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Chaucer’s Rime of Sir Thopas is interrupted by the voice of common sense—rudely— This may well be rime doggerel, quoth he. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z We find this idea also reflected in Chaucer who obviously got it from Boethius. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z Several of Odo’s tales, like Chaucer’s story, can be ultimately traced to the History of Reynard the Fox. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z “Not that knowing how to read Chaucer in old English will make him wise as how to live on nothing a year,” whispered one. Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z Readers of Chaucer’s “Prologue” will remember this mysterious word “chevisance” in connection with the Merchant. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z But Chaucer has made a good thing out of the rhyme doggerel, and expresses the pleasant old-fashioned quality of the minstrels’ romances, as well as their absurdities. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Chaucer alludes to these distinguishing attributes of the elements a number of times, as, for example, in Boethius, III.: Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z The work of re-casting the poems for this edition was Bacon's, and he is the man referred to in the following lines, which are prefixed to it:— The Reader to Geffrey Chaucer. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z Chaucer says, “And all the world as to mine eye No more seemed than a prike.” A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' 2011-07-07T02:00:25.637Z We see that she travelled much and was present at several great Court festivities; and we have every right to assume that Chaucer in her train had an equally varied experience. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Guy of Warwick was rewritten many times—Chaucer’s pupil, Lydgate, took it up and made a new version of it. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Chaucer’s Astronomy Chaucer’s treatment of astronomical lore in his poetry differs much from his use of it in his prose writings. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z From such varied ranks of society are Chaucer’s pilgrims drawn. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z He liked fishing and hunting better than the books, and Chaucer and Spenser much more than the dull volumes in the "course of study." The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z This again is complicated by the doubt which has been thrown on a Thomas Chaucer’s sonship to Geoffrey, in spite of the definite assertion by the former’s contemporary, Gascoigne, Chancellor of Oxford University. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Gawain, so much vilified by authors who should have known better, is for this poet, as he is for Chaucer, the perfection of courtesy. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z References to astronomy in Chaucer’s poetry are, as a rule rather brief, specific but not technical, often purely conventional but always truly poetic. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z She has been married five times, and of love, says Chaucer, “she knew the oldè dance.” The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z For the fourteenth century we have the writings of Chaucer, which serve to throw some light upon what was taught in the schools. Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London 2011-06-30T02:00:33.287Z For a hundred and fifty years, Chaucer was practically the only channel between rough, strong, unformed English thought and the greatest literature of the Middle Ages. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Neither of these has otherwise much likeness to the Rose; it was by Chaucer and his school that the authority of the Rose was established. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z These poetical allusions to heavenly phenomena, however, together with the more technical and detailed references in Chaucer’s prose works give evidence of a rather extensive knowledge of astronomy. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z So Chaucer’s description we know to be very truth, so far as his worth and position are concerned:— A seemly man our hostè was withal For to have been a marshal in a hall. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z In English literature, the only instance we have been able to discover is the well-known reference of Chaucer to the Miller’s wife. Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London 2011-06-30T02:00:33.287Z Here Chaucer had only half a mile to go to his daily work, by streets which we may follow still. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z The first line, it will be noticed, begins on the strong syllable; the weak syllable is dropped, as it is by Chaucer and Milton when they think fit. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The Sun Of all the heavenly bodies the one most often mentioned and employed for poetic purposes by Chaucer is the sun. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z Now the road goes downwards towards Harbledown in a succession of switchback ups and downs that, noticeable enough for remark even at this lapse of time, must have been much more marked in Chaucer’s day. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z It is characteristic of Chaucer that he should treat a matter which was evidently much in his thoughts, in this half-ironic manner. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z Chaucer’s grandfather, in 1310, was one of sixteen citizens whose arrest the King commanded on account of “certain outrages and despites” done to the Gascon merchants. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z This opinion about Chaucer is not the whole truth, but there is a great deal in it. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z If Chaucer had been in advance of his century in this respect there would certainly be some hint of the fact in his writings. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z It was at “Boughton-under-the-Blee” that Chaucer’s Canon and Yeoman overtook the pilgrims. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z The fact is that satire is not Chaucer’s natural bent. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z When we have reckoned up all Chaucer’s debts to his predecessors in this poem—and they are many—there is ample proof left of his own originality. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Gower, a man of literary talent, and Chaucer, a man of genius, are found at the same time, working in the same way, with objects in common. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z But a passage in the prologue to the Astrolabe leaves it without doubt that Chaucer was quite familiar with lunar phenomena. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z Along the way he began writing a rap version of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. On View: Paying Homage to Darwin in an Unconventional Format: Rap 2011-06-27T19:50:17Z But if Chaucer is too tolerant and genial, too little of a preacher and enthusiast, for a satirist, enough has already been said to show that his wit has often a satiric turn. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z The May-dance was probably as external to Chaucer as the Florentine carnival to Browning. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Chaucer did as much; and in his earlier work he did no more than Gower. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z But Chaucer would scarcely have written thus definitely of his plan for the fourth part of the work unless he had had fairly complete knowledge of the phenomena connected with the moon’s movements. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z “Chaucer needed to be better presented,” he explained. On View: Paying Homage to Darwin in an Unconventional Format: Rap 2011-06-27T19:50:17Z Chivalry has, indeed, little glamour in Chaucer’s eyes. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z Nothing but Chaucer’s directness of observation and truth of colouring could have kept his work as fresh as it is. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Chaucer and Gower made up what was lacking in English medieval poetry; the Middle Ages did not go by without a proper rendering of their finer spirit in English verse. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The passage of time is also indicated in Chaucer’s poetry by reference to the recurrence of the moon’s phases. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z That there could be a cosmic evolutionary angle to this thought had never occurred to me until I heard Baba Brinkman, a rap artist and Chaucer scholar, say it the other night. On View: Paying Homage to Darwin in an Unconventional Format: Rap 2011-06-27T19:50:17Z It is impossible to read Chaucer’s descriptions of nature without being struck by his love of birds and animals, and especially of the smaller and more helpless kinds. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z The poem, which had rather dragged at the beginning, here ends abruptly, as though Chaucer had tired of it. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Even the Roman de la Rose is a hundred years old when Chaucer translates it. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Yet we cannot assert, with the same assurance that we can say it of Dante, that Chaucer believed, even in a general way, in the influence of the stars on human life. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z Chaucer told none of the Arthurian stories, though he placed the scene of his Wife of Bath's Tale at King Arthur's court. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2011-06-20T02:00:02.907Z To praise the song of a nightingale can hardly be reckoned any proof of special bird-lore, and except in the Parlement of Foules, Chaucer scarcely mentions any other bird by name. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z Moreover, nearly all Chaucer’s embassies came during those evil years after our naval defeat of 1372, when our fleets no longer held the Channel, and the seas swarmed with French privateers. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z The more recent French poets whom Chaucer translates or imitates are not of the best medieval period. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Even when Chaucer makes himself one of the protagonists, as in the Hous of Fame and the Canterbury Tales, it is only that his narrative may be the more convincing. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z Chaucer in his House of Fame is obviously imitating Virgil and Ovid, although he is also indebted to Dante’s Divina Commedia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Regarded as individuals, the birds are delightfully convincing: regarded as birds they are dismissed rather carelessly, though, since it is Chaucer who dismisses them, an occasional happy phrase redeems the passage from dullness and monotony. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z There we have, in a couple of lines, the philosophy of Chaucer’s later years—to take life as we find it, and make the best of it. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Gower, who is more medieval than Chaucer, is a little behind his time. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z It is to be noted, further, that wherever Chaucer speaks in the strongest terms against astrological observances he also uses religious language. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z We looked up at the old sign of ‘Ye Old Tabard,’ hanging from the third story of the tall brick building which has replaced Chaucer’s Inn. A Canterbury Pilgrimage 2011-06-13T02:00:24.520Z The following stanza affords illustration of another point in Chaucer’s descriptions. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z This is not the place for any literary dissertation on Chaucer’s poetry, which has already been admirably discussed by many modern critics, from Lowell onwards. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z It adds something new to Chaucer’s mind; it does not change his mind with regard to the things which he had learned to value in French poetry. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Thus the astrological passages in the Franklin’s Tale do not suggest total disbelief in astrology on Chaucer’s part, and much less do they show him to have been lacking in true artistic sense. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z Let us first consider Chaucer’s 94 use, as illustrated in a part of the prayer of Emilia to Diana in the Knightes Tale:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z In 1372, as we have seen, Chaucer went to Italy, and the influence of Italian poetry upon him can hardly be exaggerated. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z In 1382 Chaucer’s financial prosperity reached its climax, for he received another comptrollership which he might exercise by deputy. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Chaucer thus shared the tastes and the aptitudes of the good ordinary man of letters. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z These ideas are frequently expressed in Chaucer, when the characters seek to understand their misfortunes or to justify their conduct by tracing them back to the determinations of the heavens at their birth. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z Of all our poets, excepting Shakespeare and Milton, and perhaps Chaucer, he has most of the poetical character—fire, fancy, and diversity.... Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Chaucer evidently realised to the full the attractiveness and the dramatic possibilities of this form of literature, but at the same time his eyes were open to its shortcomings. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z It is, however, possible that the raptus was a more serious affair; and Professor Skeat has pointed out the coincidence that Chaucer’s “little son Lowis” was just ten years old in 1391. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z This may be fairly interpreted as Chaucer talking to himself. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Chaucer has just explained what the ‘ascendant’, means in astrology. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z There is an effluence of power and light pervading all his works, and a freshness such as we feel in the glorious dawn of Chaucer. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Considerations of space make it impossible to take in detail Chaucer’s treatment of all his various sources. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z Chaucer and his contemporaries lived more in Turner’s mood: “the sun, my dear, that’s God!” Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Boethius, the master of Dante, the disciple of Plato, is one of the medieval authors who are not disqualified in any century; with him Chaucer does not require to be on his guard. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Now the fatalism of Chaucer’s characters is something like this. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z |
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