--- title: "1 Language Chaucer Quotes By Ronald Carter" description: "1 Language Chaucer quotes by Ronald Carter. Plus more from Ronald Carter and more Language Chaucer sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13d/ronald-carter-13636_literary-criticism_the-range-and-variety-of-chaucer-s-engli_723163.jpg" --- > [“The range and variety of Chaucer's English did much to establish English as a national language. Chaucer also contributed much to the formation of a standard English based on the dialect of the East Midlands region which was basically the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/the-range-and-variety-of-chaucer-s-english-did-much-to-establish/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13d/ronald-carter-13636_literary-criticism_the-range-and-variety-of-chaucer-s-engli_723163.jpg) ## More by Ronald Carter > [“Milton argued, in 1649, after the execution of Charles I, that a people 'free by nature' had a right to overthrow a tyrant; a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/milton-argued-in-1649-after-the-execution-of-charles-i-that-a-people/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after Johnson's death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/johnson-s-later-life-from-1763-is-among-the-best-documented-of-all/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“SHAKESPEARE What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/shakespeare-what-is-a-man-if-his-chief-good-and-market-of-his-time-be/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“THE METAPHYSICAL POETS Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime (Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress) While theatre…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/the-metaphysical-poets-had-we-but-world-enough-and-time-this-coyness/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“Two literary figures bridge the gap between the mediaeval age and the Renaissance. They are Sir Thomas Malory, the author of Le Morte D'Arthur,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/two-literary-figures-bridge-the-gap-between-the-mediaeval-age-and-the/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“One of the first books of travel, giving European readers some insight into the unfamiliar world of the Orient, was published in 1356-67 in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/one-of-the-first-books-of-travel-giving-european-readers-some-insight/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in this respect.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/shakespeare-s-plays-do-not-present-easy-solutions-the-audience-has-to/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“The language of Shakespeare is the first and lasting affirmation of the great changes that took place in the sixteenth century, leaving the Middle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/the-language-of-shakespeare-is-the-first-and-lasting-affirmation-of/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“Chaucer's world in The Canterbury Tales brings together, for the first time, a diversity of characters, social levels, attitudes, and ways of life. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/chaucer-s-world-in-the-canterbury-tales-brings-together-for-the-first/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“The beliefs and behaviour of the Restoration reflect the theories of society put forward by Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan, which was written in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/the-beliefs-and-behaviour-of-the-restoration-reflect-the-theories-of/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“In the humanist world following Erasmus, man is at the centre of the universe. Man becomes largely responsible for his own destiny, behaviour and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/in-the-humanist-world-following-erasmus-man-is-at-the-centre-of-the/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“Few poets better convey the uneasy transition from Victorianism to Modernism than Thomas Hardy. His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/few-poets-better-convey-the-uneasy-transition-from-victorianism-to/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“The range and variety of Chaucer's English did much to establish English as a national language. Chaucer also contributed much to the formation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/the-range-and-variety-of-chaucer-s-english-did-much-to-establish/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“Christian monks and nuns were, in effect, the guardians of culture, as they were virtually the only people who could read and write before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/christian-monks-and-nuns-were-in-effect-the-guardians-of-culture-as/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) > [“Revolution was the great nightmare of eighteenth-century British society, and when first the American Revolution of 1776, then the French Revolution of 1789 overturned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/revolution-was-the-great-nightmare-of-eighteenth-century-british/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language-chaucer/ronald-carter/#itemlist", "name": "1 Language Chaucer Quotes By Ronald Carter", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The range and variety of Chaucer's English did much to establish English as a national language. Chaucer also contributed much to the formation of a standard English based on the dialect of the East Midlands region which was basically the dialect of London which Chaucer himself spoke. Indeed, by the end of the fourteenth century the educated language of London, bolstered by the economic power of London itself, was beginning to become the standard form of written language throughout the country, although the process was not to be completed for several centuries. The cultural, commercial, administrative and intellectual importance of the East Midlands (one of the two main universities, Cambridge, was also in this region), the agricultural richness of the region and the presence of major cities, Norwich and London, contributed much to the increasing standardisation of the dialect.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ronald Carter" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/the-range-and-variety-of-chaucer-s-english-did-much-to-establish/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13d/ronald-carter-13636_literary-criticism_the-range-and-variety-of-chaucer-s-engli_723163.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13d/ronald-carter-13636_literary-criticism_the-range-and-variety-of-chaucer-s-engli_723163.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13d/ronald-carter-13636_literary-criticism_the-range-and-variety-of-chaucer-s-engli_723163.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The range and variety of Chaucer's English did much to establish English as a national language. Chaucer…” — Ronald Carter", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language-chaucer/ronald-carter/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language-chaucer/ronald-carter/", "name": "Language Chaucer Quotes by Ronald Carter", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language-chaucer/ronald-carter/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13d/ronald-carter-13636_literary-criticism_the-range-and-variety-of-chaucer-s-engli_723163.jpg" }, "description": "1 Language Chaucer quotes by Ronald Carter. Plus more from Ronald Carter and more Language Chaucer sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language-chaucer/ronald-carter/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language-chaucer/ronald-carter/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Language Chaucer", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language-chaucer/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Ronald Carter", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language-chaucer/ronald-carter/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```