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                             Little Memos about Chaucer

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                             Little Memos about Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet and author.

He is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.

He is regarded as the first master of English language.

He was son of a wealthy merchant family.

He had lifelong career in royal service as a soldier, diplomat, royal envoy, office of the crown.

He was a meticulous observer.

He was humorous and witty.

He was influenced by the Italian poets Petrarch, Ovid and Boccacio.

He could adopt a variety of styles in his writing.

He is best known for the Canterbury Tales.

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                                              The Canterbury Tales

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                                              The Canterbury Tales

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It is regarded as one of the greatest poems in all of English literature.

It is considered as "one of the most resourceful summaries of the sensibility of the Middle Ages, as rich and as complex as the stonework of the cathedrals." (Ackroyd, 2009)

It also manifests a common European sensibility with its adaptation of French and Italian literature within English narrative.

In a sense, it is the first triumph of the vernacular English language.

It is highly decorated with rhetorical and stylistic devices.

It is a conflation of distinct and different narratives (24); it is a frame narrative.

The tales move by contrasts. Spiritual against secual, piety against buffoonery. There is chivalric romance next to broad sexaul humour.

The language is quite fluent.

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                                                     Quotes

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                                                     Quotes

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“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”

“No empty handed man can lure a bird”

"Forbid us something, and that thing we desire; but press it on us hard, and we will flee."

"The life so short, the craft so long to learn."

"Death is the end of every worldly pain."

"What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing."