“Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to finish 24 tales before he suffered an insurmountable and permanent state of writer's block commonly known as death.” — Jacopo della Quercia Copy Share Image
“Mr. Morris's poem is ushered into the world with a very florid birthday speech from the pen of the author of the too famous Poems and Ballads ,—a circumstance, we apprehend, in no small degree prejudicial to its success. But… — Henry James Copy Share Image
