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- English). Almost two thousand English words are first attested to in Chaucerian m****cripts. Chaucer was born in London, most likely in the early 1340s...
- of the tale of Sir Thopas (who might be considered distinct from the Chaucerian narrator, who is in turn somewhat divorced from Chaucer the author). The...
- The Makars have often been referred to by literary critics as Scots Chaucerians. In modern usage, poets of the Scots revival in the 18th century, such...
- alongside the rhyming couplet. James I of Scotland used rhyme royal for his Chaucerian poem The Kingis Quair. The name of the stanza might derive from this royal...
- There are two pseudo-Chaucerian texts called "The Plowman's Tale". In the mid-15th century a rhyme royal "Plowman's Tale" was added to the text of The...
- the French Rondel to serve as the basis for The Knight's Tale. In the Chaucerian Rondel, two tercets followed by a quatrain comprise each stanza. Later...
- count, to about 145,000 lines. He explored and established every major Chaucerian genre, except such as were manifestly unsuited to his profession, like...
- influenced by this scandal. The Physician's Tale is widely considered by Chaucerian scholars to be a failure, largely due to its convoluted moral message...
- antitheistic social commentator Christopher Hitchens described his work as "Chaucerian fraud" and a "faith-based fraud." Hitchens took special umbrage with Falwell's...
- been described by film commentator Sam Rohdie as "like Chaucerian English but not Chaucerian English". The following locations were used as settings...