The Ellesmere Ms. Of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Geoffrey Chaucer

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ISBN 10: 0331463512 ISBN 13: 9780331463514

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Ellesmere Ms. Of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Lines 1455-8, 1493-8 of the Franklin 5 Tale are not found in any other ms. Of the Canterbury Tales yet examind by or for me.

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Often referred to as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was a fourteenth-century philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, bureaucrat, diplomat, and author of many significant poems. Chaucer s writing was influential in English literary tradition, as it introduced new rhyming schemes and helped develop the vernacular traditionthe use of everyday Englishrather than the literary French and Latin, which were common in written works of the time. Chaucer s best-knownand most imitatedworks include The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and The House of Fame.

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