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The Riverside Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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4 entries have been written about this.

jocxy
Malmö

A story about this — 3 years ago

Today I read the Book of the Duchess. The kind of close reading, with attention to variants, that essay work requires takes about a million years. But I can’t deny that even this early work stuff is actually quite good.

jocxy
Malmö

A story about this — 3 years ago

I read most of book I of Troilus yesterday and it just strikes me again how great this stuff is. Entertaining, funny, brilliant, acerbic. And it’s not actually 1000 pages, it’s more like seven hundred if I don’t read the notes. I have two essays due on Chaucer like, now, so I gotta remind myself I actually like this stuff. Gotta do some dream poetry and a goodly chunk out of the Canterbury tales the next three days. Two essays in three days is doable… right?

jocxy
Malmö

Why it's taking me forever to finish consuming this — 3 years ago

It’s 1300 pages. Even with the introductions and glossaries excepted it’s something like 1000 pages. I HAVE read chunks of it, but not enough. I do quite like it, and my Middle English is all right, but the fact that I have to read it kinda rains on my parade a little bit.

My target for tonight is to read lines 750-777 of Book 1 for Troilus and Criseyde. (I’m writing a commentary on them tomo morning). That’ll take about 10 minutes even if I take notes. Afterwards I get to read something I genuinely feel like until I fall asleep!

amanova
Edmonton

A story about this — 5 years ago

The Canterbury Tales. All of them!


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