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Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales"
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Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales"

William Blake's Sir Jeffery Chaucer and the nine and twenty Pilgrims on their journey to Canterbury, 1808

Though J. R. R. Tolkien translated portions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, he did not live to complete the project. Fortunately another Inkling, Nevill Coghill, succeeded where Tolkien could not, and produced the modernized verse-rendering that today’s selection comes from. Happy reading!

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