Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“A sack of sage, satire, irony and humor How healthy looms the Chaucer’s loomer Couplet by Mk Bhutta” — Lecturer M K Bhutta Poet Copy Share Image
“Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip. — John Hutton Copy Share Image
Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet… — George Saintsbury 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
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You know what my favourite quotation is?.. It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese." — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“the most famous of all those who had an acquaintance with cryptology in the Middle Ages was an English customs official, amateur… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare could not have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and… — James Joyce 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
Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down… — William Langland 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
What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer. — William Caxton Copy Share Image
On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit… But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
