Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . which means mumblers of prayers. But Wycliffe will always be remembered, not so much forhis connection with the Poor Priests as for his translationof the Bible into English. Hundreds of copies were multi-plied by hand and scattered among the people. 89. Geoffrey Chaucer.—During the reign of Edward III, apriest named William Langland had written a long poemcalled Piers Plowman, in which he described the strugglesof the poor and their sufferings from co
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . which means mumblers of prayers. But Wycliffe will always be remembered, not so much forhis connection with the Poor Priests as for his translationof the Bible into English. Hundreds of copies were multi-plied by hand and scattered among the people. 89. Geoffrey Chaucer.—During the reign of Edward III, apriest named William Langland had written a long poemcalled Piers Plowman, in which he described the strugglesof the poor and their sufferings from cold and poem was written in English, and is the first longpoem written in such a way as to be at all easily readto-day. But the first English poet is really GeoffreyChaucer, whose great work, the Canterbury Tales, entitleshim to be known as the Father of English Poetry. The book is made up of stories that a band of pilgrimstell in going to and from the shrine of Saint Thomas k wM ?HK^m ^41 ^B^^^^i^^ h £^ l^a^^^^^^n m^^^Mi »^pi^g^^^^^B f^^^^^^S^-fi r«^:?^»^H fA Mfe^^^^^^B John Wycliffe 92 HISTORY OP ENGLAND [1389-99. Geoffrey Chaucer Becket of Canterbury. On this pilgrimage were all sortsof people, a knight, a squire, a monk, a nun, a scholar, a cook, a sailor, a parish priest, andmany others; and therefore there areall sorts of tales. In those days itwas thought perfectly right for aman to take any story that he hadheard, tell it in his own way, andcall it his own; Chaucer, accordingly,took the plot of a story from wher-ever he found it, but it is his wayof telling a tale that we like espe-cially. He makes us feel as if wehad really seen the people he de-scribes. That Chaucer, who spentmuch time at court, should havewritten his poem in English is proof that neither Latin norFrench, but English, made richer by many words from theFrench, had become the literary language of the land. 90. Richard is deposed.—From the time of the PeasantsRevolt, Richard was i
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