Geoffrey Chaucer — "And everich of us to lighten his herte, And of his tale anothere for to telle."
And everich of us to lighten his herte, And of his tale anothere for to telle.
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"Ther is no difference, by my fey, Bitwixe a wys man and a fool, but this: The fool is glad, and the wys man is sorweful."
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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 (the Host setting up the storytelling game, implying the lighthearted and competitive nature of the journey)
Date: c. 1387-1400
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