. Class book of poetry: consisting of selections from distinguished English and American poets, from Chaucer to Tennyson. The whole arranged in chronological order, with biographical and critical remarks . CHAUCER. GEOFFREY CHAUCER, the Father of EngHsh Poetry,was born in London, in 1328, and died in October, 1400,at the advanced age of seventy-two years. He was conse-quently the contemporary of Petrarch and Boccacio, andfixmiliar with the stirring events of Edward III. and theBlack Prince. He was a soldier and a man of the world,and mingled much in public affixirs. He wrote the Dream,the Cour
. Class book of poetry: consisting of selections from distinguished English and American poets, from Chaucer to Tennyson. The whole arranged in chronological order, with biographical and critical remarks . CHAUCER. GEOFFREY CHAUCER, the Father of EngHsh Poetry,was born in London, in 1328, and died in October, 1400,at the advanced age of seventy-two years. He was conse-quently the contemporary of Petrarch and Boccacio, andfixmiliar with the stirring events of Edward III. and theBlack Prince. He was a soldier and a man of the world,and mingled much in public affixirs. He wrote the Dream,the Court of Love, the Flower and Leaf, Troilus and Cres-seide, the House of Fame, and some other minor upon which his fame chiefly rests, is the CanterburyTales. The plan of this i^oem is as follows : A company of personsof various descriptions meet bj chance at the Tabard Inn,in a suburb of London, all bent on a pilgrimage to the shrineof Thomas a Becket, at Canterbury. The Pilgrims resolveto beguile the way by requiring of each one in the companya Tale, both in going and returning. These Tales, and thecharacters of the narrators prefixed, form the Poem. It was composed when the author was sixclassbookofpoetr01hart
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