“Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be.” — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a common man should rust" -The Prologue of Chaucers… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to… — Jacopo della Quercia Copy Share Image
“Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“For he would rather have at his bed's head Some twenty books, all bound in black and red, Of Aristotle and his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“In the late 1300s, decades after the expulsion of the Jews from England, Geoffrey Chaucer, one of England’s earliest poets, included Hugh’s… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations. As one age falls, another rises, different to… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“Chaucer's world in The Canterbury Tales brings together, for the first time, a diversity of characters, social levels, attitudes, and ways of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“One eye-witness reported that: '...it seems more like the celebration of the orgies of Bacchus, than the memory of a pious saint,… — Colin Bord Copy Share Image
“people can die of mere imagination - Geffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales” — Paul Strohm Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified. — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“Colin mustered a perfunctory leer, but his mind was obviously elsewhere. 'Do you know...' he began. I knew many things, but I… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
