Canterbury tales Quote by Robert Graves

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets…

— Robert Graves

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

— James Fenton

“In the late 1300s, decades after the expulsion of the Jews from England, Geoffrey Chaucer, one of England’s earliest poets, included Hugh’s story in…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a common man should rust" -The Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales-”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“For he would rather have at his bed's head Some twenty books, all bound in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy Than…

— Anonymous

I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel, like younger…

— Chris Ware

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed…

— Rick Moody

“The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations. As one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight,…

— William Blake

“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…

— Ronald Carter

“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…

— Jacopo della Quercia

“Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis Khan of…

— Jack Weatherford

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

— Geoffrey Chaucer