CANTERBURY TALES
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Gross 1
Geoffrey Chaucer was an outstanding English poet, and today is remembered
still as the most significant poet to write in Middle English (online literature.com).
He made a critical contribution to English literature in using this style of writing
when most of poetry was at that time being written in Anglo-Norman or Latin
(classicnotes.com). One of the few works of the English Middle Ages written by
Chaucer that is still being published today is The Canterbury Tales (classicnotes.
com).
The Canterbury Tales is said to have presented Chaucer at his best (Hooper
XI). Chaucer never finished The Canterbury Tales as he had originally planned.
In fact he only completed twenty-four tales total, whereas he had originally planned
to tell over one hundred tales (Hooper XII). His original idea was to have each
pilgrim tell four tales, but he ended up not even completing one tale for each pilgrim
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