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CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (about 1340-1400)

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From: Young Students Learning Library
Date: 19960101
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``Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote / The droghte of March hath perced to the rote.'' (``When that April with its showers sweet / The drought of March has pierced to the root.'') These are the opening words of one of the greatest English narrative poems ever written: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. They are written in Middle English--the English used in Chaucer's time.

Chaucer wrote his witty verse story 600 years ago. It is about 30 pilgrims on their way from London to the shrine of Thomas à Becket at Canterbury. The pilgrims tell stories to pass the ...

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