id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 3624 Ward, Adolphus William, Sir Chaucer .txt message/x-emlx 62416 2803 68 Now, we possess a charming poem by Chaucer called the "Assembly of dates in King Richard's reign the poet Gower, Chaucer's contemporary sermon which closes the "Canterbury Tales" as Chaucer left them), in poets,--men of the world, who like Chaucer quoted authorities even more age of the Poet of the "Canterbury Tales," than the story of Bishop Moreover, no English translation of this poem besides Chaucer's is ever Chaucer's translation of this poem is thought to have been the cause Tieck--in Chaucer's poem probably a flattering allegory for the King) How long Chaucer had been engaged upon the "Canterbury Tales" it is the less said the better; while in the "Reeve's Tale," Chaucer even, greatest of Chaucer's successors among English poets. Chaucer himself, and not taken from his French original--in the "Man of repeatedly made of Chaucer, "father of our English poets;" and his "Canterbury Tales," Chaucer's greatest work. ./cache/3624.txt ./txt/3624.txt