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Chaucer
Title: Chaucer
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1735 | Pages: 7.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
3...I think some of Chaucer belongs to his time and that much of that
time is dead, extinct, and never to be made alive again. What was
alive in it, lives through him...2
--John Masefield
Geoffrey Chaucer1s world was the Europe of the fourteenth century.
It was neither rich or poor, happy nor sad. Rather, it was the
intermingling of these, a mixture of splendor and poverty, displaying
both worldly desire and spiritual purity. Chaucer1s travels through
it, mostly on 3the …showed first 85 words of 1735 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1735 total…his life to break away from the molds which
society had set about poetry in general, and his work in specific.
Instead of forging beautifully crafted lies and tales about society,
his poetry held up a mirror to reflect reality as he saw it.
Chaucer1s growth out of the mold imposed by tradition is illustrated
by the steady departure of it in his writings. And his final works,
escaping at last form the accepted style, set the stage for the
beginnings of English literature.
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