Chaucer's characters are sufficiently distinct from one another, but they are too little varied in themselves, too much like ident
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He is the poet of the dawn, who wrote
The Canterbury Tales and his old age ...
The Canterbury Tales and his old age ...
In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets. The Iliad is no
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Such pure and genuine and childlike love of Nature is hardly to be found in any poet.
We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.
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On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would have
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His genius does not soar like Milton's, but is genial and familiar. It shows great tenderness and delicacy, but not the heroic sen
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Chaucer's remarkably trustful and affectionate character appears in his familiar, yet innocent and reverent, manner of speaking of
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Chaucer is fresh and modern still, and no dust settles on his true passages. It lightens along the line, and we are reminded that
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Chaucer had eminently the habits of a literary man and a scholar. There were never any times so stirring that there were not to be
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