Readings From Great English Writers
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Excerpt from Readings From Great English Writers: From Chaucer to Tennyson; With Biographical Notes Geoffrey Chaucer was born about the year 1340, and died in 1400. His life was spent in the service of the State as soldier, diplomatist, and civil servant. In his early manhood he visited France and Italy and was much influenced by the literature of these countries. Under their influence he wrote his Book of the Duchess, an elegy on Blanche of Lancaster, Troilus and Cressida, the House of Fame, and the Legend of Good Women. About 1386 Chaucer commenced to draft the Canterbury Tales into final shape. The series open with a Prologue describing the meeting at an inn of the pilgrims to the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterbury, and gives a vivid portrait of each. They agree to take their host as guide and to tell two stories each on the way out, and two on their return journey. Of the one hundred and twenty-eight stories intended under this plan, some five-and-twenty only were written. The whole series show Chaucer to be supreme as a raconteur, and are full of the richest humour. The Parson. A good man was there of religión, That was a poore Parson of a town. But rich he was of holy thought and work. He was also a learned man, a Clerk About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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