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Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Vol. 24: Edited From Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The following brief notice of the personal history of the poet is little more than an abridgment of the se of Chaucer by Sir Harris Nicolas, who has gathered togethera mass of curious facts from the public records, many of them not known before. To that biographical sketch, which is pre fixed to Mr. Pickering's last edition of Tyrwhitt's text, I refer those who are desirous of learning everything that is really known of Chaucer's life, which had been disfigured by previous biographers with a mass of details founded only on mistakes, or drawn from the imaginations of the writers. I have no wish to rewrite what Sir Harris Nicolas has already done with so much judgment, but it will probably be pected that I should give here the outlines of the life of the author I am editing.years and of his education are vague and unsatis factory, but he was certainly a man of extensive learning, and he had the education of a gentleman he is generally believed to have been bred to the law. We learn from Chaucer's own testimony, given at a later period, in the case of the Grosvenor peerage, that in the autumn of 1359 he was in the army with which Edward III invaded France, which was his first military service, and that he was made prisoner by the French during the expedition which terminated with the peace of Chartres, in May 1360.
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