Geoffrey Chaucer

The second part of the story gives excerpts of the diary, which makes heard the voice of an earlier Judith Shakespeare, a woman's writing (like that of Margaret Paston ) which also seeks to capture...

Nicolete Damer in the story is called after the medieval legend of Aucassin and Nicolette just as her closest brother is called Cassy, short for Aucassin.

The article is a short biography of John Wycliffe . CFC refers to him as a talented theologian and our first great reformer, who contributed (through his translation of the Bible into English, finished in...

A study of the ways in which metaphor functions grammatically, this text analyses a range of works by writers including Chaucer , Donne , Yeats , and Eliot : all but Chaucer were added since...

In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also...

The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer , with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking...

It consists of an alphabetical list of English flowers, with excerpts under each from poets who wrote about that flower, from Chaucer and Shakespeare onwards.

The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil , opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?JCM calls on the...

Whereas Boccaccio 's tale-tellers had retired to a country house while the plague raged in town, and those in Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales were on pilgrimage, Marguerite de Navarre 's travellers are stranded at an...

Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. The final poem, A Legacy, On my Fiftieth Birthday, is written...

The narrator for most of the story is Alfred Gaveston, son of the actual Piers Gaveston who is notorious in history as the favourite of Edward II . (Piers Gaveston in fact had one or...

She notes that poets have lived difficult and unappreciated lives, and that many have been forgotten. Quoting a remark by Pope (that time, which has made Chaucer unintelligible, will one day do the same with...

In 1924 Frederic and Bertha Goudy printed a limited edition of the title-poem Renascence at their Village Press , using the very hand press that William Morris had used for the Kelmscott Chaucer .

Christine de Pisan 's Proverbes moraulx, written in about 1400 for the education of her son, were reprinted in Richard Pynson 's edition of Chaucer as The Morall proverbes of Christyne.

WC is a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poet who treats everyday concerns, often in demanding forms, such as the sonnet or the villanelle. Her tone is colloquial and she makes these difficult forms look...