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Chaucer's Ecclesiastics In The Canterbury Tales, Helen Lee Coleman
Chaucer's Ecclesiastics In The Canterbury Tales, Helen Lee Coleman
Master's Theses
It is thought that Chaucer began composing The Canterbury Tales as a dramatic whole around 1387. This is his last and by f ar his best known work. In this final. masterpiece Chaucer undertakes the tremendous task or presenting in poetic form a whole society. However, he does not merely explore society in general; he also develops the theme or the individual's relation to the community and the integral part that each person plays in making up the whole. The Canterbury Tales is, as George Lyman Kittredge so aptly puts it, "a micro cosmography" or a little image of a …
Chaucer's Ecclesiastics In The Canterbury Tales, Helen Lee Coleman
Chaucer's Ecclesiastics In The Canterbury Tales, Helen Lee Coleman
Master's Theses
It is thought that Chaucer began composing The Canterbury Tales as a dramatic whole around 1387. This is his last and by far his best known work. In this final masterpiece Chaucer undertakes the tremendous task of presenting in poetic form a whole society. However, he does not merely explore society in general; he also develops the theme or the individual's relation to the community and the integral part that each person plays in making up the whole. The Canterbury Tales is, as George Lyman Kittredge so aptly puts it, "a micro cosmography" or a little image of a great …