Geoffrey Chaucer — "A Monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie, An outridere, that loved venerie."
A Monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie, An outridere, that loved venerie.
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About Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)
English poet, civil servant, and the father of English literature; The Canterbury Tales (~1387-1400) is the founding text of English-language storytelling. Closely associated with Giovanni Boccaccio (his Italian predecessor; the Decameron preceded the Canterbury Tales by ~40 years). For an intellectual contrast, see John Wycliffe, English theologian and Lollard reform-movement leader — Wycliffe and Chaucer were near-contemporaries in the same English Christian world — Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Pardoner are the canonical literary defense of fleshly humanity against the Lollard moral austerity that would later become English Puritanism. Earthy storytelling vs proto-Protestant moralism.
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The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue (ironic description of the Monk who loves hunting more than monastic duties)
Date: c. 1387-1400
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