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Geoffrey Chaucer
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...I think some of Chaucer belongs to his time and that much of that
time is dead, extinct, and never to be made alive again. What was alive
in it, lives through him..._
--John Masefield
Geoffrey Chaucer¦s world was the Europe of the fourteenth century. It was
neither rich or poor, happy nor sad. Rather, it was the inte ....
Part 2 of Essay .... he
remained in the city, and it¦s affects on his writing was immense.
London of that time was not the London of today. It was a walled city,
guarded against invasion, but long enough time had passed since such a
threat had approached that the defenses had loosened. Houses perched upon
the walls, and Chaucer in fact, lived for a time in a house built over
Aldgate, (one of the gates of the city).
London was a city less than three-quarters of a square mile in size: It
ran east and west along the Thames le ....
Word count: 1745 | Approximate pages: 7
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