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Looking Up Times Vol 6 No 2 (1990), Looking Up Staff
Looking Up Times Vol 6 No 2 (1990), Looking Up Staff
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Chaucer's Sense Of An Ending, Colleen Donnelly
Chaucer's Sense Of An Ending, Colleen Donnelly
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The problem of closure plagued Chaucer throughout his career, and critics have continued to point out his 'inability" to end or finish many of his poems. This lack of closure often frustrates the casual reader and perplexes the serious scholar, leaving both to wonder if Chaucer was incapable of bringing his poems to an end or if he simply intended to tease his audience with such inconclusiveness. Neither answer is quite satisfactory. To understand that this inconclusiveness was deliberately created by Chaucer the master poet, and not by Chaucer resignedly handing the pen over to the befuddled persona whoo records …