'Thou lokest as thou woldest finde an hare,
For ever upon the ground I see thee stare.
Approchë neer, and loke up merily....
He semeth elvish by his contenaunce.'
(The Host's description of Chaucer, Prologue, Sir Thopas)
I found it randomly while surfing on the internet for Canterbury Tales and really liked it because there was given an old but impressive description of Geoffrey Chaucer by someone else and I thought that it would be pretty nice when I mention it on my blog.
(here is the link in which I found it: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10609/10609-h/10609-h.htm)
"Canterbury Tales" is a little bit different from other poems and stories that we covered before because it is a story within stories. By the way, this kind of stories called as 'a frame story', I have just learned it although I had some background information about the story. In the story, there were pilgrims on their way to Canterbury to visit the tomb of St. Thomas Becket. They decide to start a contest requiring each pilgrim to tell two different stories during their trip. And, the one whose story chosen the best would be the winner of the contest and gain a free meal as a reward. This is the way how it was made.
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