Geoffrey Chaucer — "This somnour bar to hym a stif burdoun; / Was nevere trompe of half so greet a s…"
This somnour bar to hym a stif burdoun; / Was nevere trompe of half so greet a soun.
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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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General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Summoner and Pardoner singing together. The imagery of their loud, unharmonious performance is subtly 'weird' and reflects their dubious characters.
Date: c. 1387-1400
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