GEOFFREY CHAUCER. AN Chaucer, as he is termed by some of our olderwriters, is the popular representative of the earlierperiod of English poetry ; indeed he may beconsidered The Poet, par excellence, of the EnglishMiddle Ages. In spite of the antiquated charac-ter of his language, the Canterbury…
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