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Chaucer was descended from two generations of rich vintners who had everything however a identify and in 1357 Chaucer began pursuing a role at court docket. As a squire within the courtroom of Elizabeth, Countess of Ulster, the spouse of Lionel, Earl of Ulster (later Duke of Clarence), Chaucer might have served as a gentleman’s gentleman—basically a butler. A young man in this function might be in service to the aristocrats of the court who required diversions as well as home help. The way must have opened quick for Chaucer, who may want to both inform testimonies and compose songs. The countess become French, so French poets which include Guillaume de Machaut and Eustache Deschamps furnished an early idea, and Chaucer’s earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess and The Parliament of Birds, rest on a heavy French base. At this time, Chaucer made the acquaintance of the man who could most deeply influence his political career: John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Chaucer and Gaunt married the daughters of the French Knight Sir Paon de Roet—Gaunt as a way to legitimize his sons by the Roet’s daughter, who were his mistress for a few time (all of the English kings after Henry VI got here from this line), and Chaucer to enter the arena of the aristocracy. Of all the Canterbury pilgrims (and there may be a “Chaucer”), the only who maximum closely approximates his situation is the social-hiking Franklin, a man heartily worried with the gentility of his son. Chaucer’s very own son, Thomas, became one of the richest guys in London, and his exceptional-grandson (who died on the battlefield) became named inheritor obvious to the throne of England. Although Chaucer changed into close to Gaunt, he become always at the fringes of the world of courtly political intrigue of this time, a length Shakespeare dramatized in Richard II.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EKnown as the first English author, Chaucer wrote in English at a time while Latin became taken into consideration the grammatica, or language which would not trade, and most of the upper-elegance English spoke French. Chaucer himself often used French translations of Latin texts; that he chose the language of the lower-magnificence Saxons in preference to Norman the Aristocracy has puzzled readers and pupils for centuries. As Sir Walter Scott pointed out, the Saxon language can name simplest barnyard animals on the hoof. If one fed a home animal, they used its Saxon name, sheep; but if one ate it, they probable referred to as it by using its French name, mouton, which soon became mutton. This linguistic difference become a category difference in Chaucer’s England: if one raised a farm animal, one turned into a Saxon and called it by way of its English name; if one were rich sufficient to eat it, one named it in French: calf\/veau (veal); chicken\/poulet (pullet); pig\/porc (pork). Chaucer did not try, however, to affect his relatives with his French, however began to increase English into a especially flexible literary language.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EChaucer wrote many works, a number of which like \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/prologue-to-canterbury-tales.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Canterbury Tales\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E (circa 1375-1400) he by no means finished. He pioneered many recognizably “present day” novelistic techniques, along with psychologically complex characters: many declare that Troilus and Criseyde is the primary English novel due to the way its major characters are always operating at ranges of response, verbal and intellectual. All of Chaucer’s works are sophisticated meditations on language and artifice. Moving out of a medieval world view wherein allegory reigned, Chaucer advanced a version of language and fiction premised on concealment rather than communique or theological interpretation. Indeed, Chaucer misrepresents himself in his early works, creating self-snap shots in The Book of the Duchess (circa 1368-1369) and The House of Fame (circa 1378-1381) as an innocent, obese bookworm some distance from the canny businessman and social climber he truly become.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EChaucer’s first foremost work, The Book of the Duchess, is an elegy at the death of Blanche, John of Gaunt’s first wife. The poem, though packed with conventional French flourishes, develops its originality around the courting between the narrator, a fictionalized version of the poet, and the mourner, the Man in Black, who represents Gaunt. Chaucer uses a naïve narrator in both The Book of the Duchess and The House of Fame, which employs a comic model of the guide-narrator courting of Dante and Virgil within the Commedia. The talkative Eagle courses the naive “Chaucer” simply as the naive Dante is guided by means of the gossipy Virgil. The Eagle takes “Chaucer” to the House of Fame (Rumor), that is even greater the house of memories. Here Chaucer makes a case for the preeminence of story, an concept that he explored to high-quality impact in The Canterbury Tales. The inhabitants of the House of Fame are asked whether they want to be remarkable fans or to be remembered as first rate lovers, and all choose the latter: the tale is greater critical than the reality.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EDating Chaucer’s works is hard but pupils generally anticipate that his dream-imaginative and prescient poem The Parliament of Birds (circa 1378-1381), which is much less glaringly tied to supply texts or events, is his 0.33 work as it marks a shift in form: he begins to use the seven-line pentameter stanza that he would use in Troilus and Criseyde (circa 1382-1386). The Parliament of Birds is an indictment of courtly love staged as an allegory with birds corresponding to social instructions: the looking birds (eagles, hawks) represent the nobles, the bug eaters (cuckoos) represent the bourgeois, the water bird are the merchants, and the seed eaters (turtledoves) are the landed farming interests. Each magnificence is given a exclusive voice. In The Parliament of Birds Chaucer examined themes as a way to pervade his later paintings: the battle between Nature and courtly love will permeate Troilus and Criseyde and the experimentation with different voices for all of the characters and social instructions of birds presages The Canterbury Tales.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EBy 1374 Chaucer became firmly worried in home politics and become granted the vital put up of controller of customs taxes on hides, skins, and wool. Chaucer had to hold the records himself as well as oversee the collectors. These had been prosperous instances for Chaucer; his spouse had gotten a massive annuity, and they were living lease loose in a house above the metropolis gate at Aldgate. After visits to Genoa and Florence in 1372-1373 and to Lombardy in 1378, Chaucer advanced an interest in Italian language and literature, which encouraged his poem Troilus and Criseyde. Chaucer retold the medieval romance of doomed enthusiasts, putting his epic poem against the backdrop of the siege of Troy. The poem takes its story line from Giovanni Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato (1335-1340), but its idea from Dante’s love for Beatrice as told in the Convito (1307) and from Petrarch’s love for Laura as manifested in the sonnets.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EIn the poem, Chaucer is presenting a case for ennobling ardour which fits with the French romances he had study in his youth; only in Troilus and Criseyde this romance takes a specifically Italian turn. The poem analyzes the artifices of love as well as the complex motivations of fans. Both Dante and Petrarch start via seeing love as artifice and then show how love breaks freed from that artifice. Petrarch’s rime (poems) to Laura are in two businesses divided via a simple truth, her dying. The sonnets in “Vita di ma donna Laura” are artificial, conventional poems packed with such tropes as oxymoron, antithesis, hyperbole, and conceit. The style changed into so traditional that the French poets had a verb, Petrarquizer, to write like Petrarch. The sonnets alternate notably after Laura’s dying, because the artifices fall away in his try to re-create the authentic Laura. The same trade happens in Troilus after the absence of Criseyde. Through his trials Troilus learns, as have Dante and Petrarch earlier than him, that loving a real woman is the most effective actual love.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EChaucer most famous paintings, The Canterbury Tales, additionally is similar with Italian literature: the unfinished poem draws on the technique of the frame tale as practiced via Boccaccio in The Decameron (1349-1351), even though it’s not clean that Chaucer knew The Decameron in its entirety. The pretext for storytelling in Boccaccio is a pandemic in Florence which sends a set of ten nobles to the u . S . A . to get away the Black Death. For each of ten days, they each tell a tale. Each day’s stories are grouped around a not unusual subject matter or narrative subject. The tales, all a hundred of them, are completed; the plague leads to Florence; and the nobles return to the city.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThe Canterbury Tales innovates on this version in great ways. Far from being noble, Chaucer’s tale-tellers run the spectrum of the middle class, from the Knight to the Pardoner and the Summoner. And the memories are not told within the order that might be expected—from highest-rating pilgrim to lowest. Instead, every character uses his story as a weapon or tool to get lower back at or maybe with the previous story-teller. Once the Miller has mounted the principle of “quiting,” each tale generates the next. The Reeve, who takes offense due to the fact “The Miller’s Tale” is about a cuckolded wood worker (the Reeve had been a chippie in his youth), tells a story about a cuckolded miller, who also gets overwhelmed up after his daughter is deflowered. As in lots of the tales, subtle distinctions of elegance end up the focus of the story.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EChaucer’s refusal to permit his tale give up conventionally is usual of the way he handles familiar stories. He desires to have it both ways, and he reminds the reader of this continuously. In “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” for example, he argues each towards an allegorical reading of the story, “My tale is of a cok,” and for it, “Taketh the fruyt, and lat the chaf be stille.” At work in a lot of these memories is an important Chaucerian device: a fake syllogism based on the movement from the particular to the overall returned to the particular again, although the unique now occupies a new ethical ground. Almost every time Chaucer offers a listing of examples, he is playing with this disparity between the general and the precise. As Chaucer worked in opposition to the impossibility of finishing The Canterbury Tales in keeping with the unique plan—one hundred twenty memories, 4 told by every of thirty pilgrims (in the Middle Ages, which had many systems based on twelve, 120 became as round quite a number because the one hundred of The Decameron)—he began to keep in mind the nature of finishing an act of storytelling. In The Canterbury Tales, similarly to numerous unfinished memories (the Cook’s, the Squire’s), there are two stories which can be interrupted by way of different pilgrims: Chaucer’s very own “Tale of Sir Thopas” and “The Monk’s Tale.” In dealing with these tales, Chaucer actions into issues, mainly that of closure, that are now critical to narratology and literary concept. Put another manner, Chaucer worries both about what a tale can imply and what a story can be. In thinking about the ramifications of an invented teller telling approximately different invented tellers telling tales whose essential motive is to get returned (“pretty”) at different tellers, Chaucer finds himself with a new theory of fiction, one this is recognizably contemporary and even postmodern.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThere is an awful lot speculation as to why Chaucer left The Canterbury Tales unfinished. One idea is that he left off writing them in the mid 1390s, some 5 or six years before his dying. It is possible that the enormousness of the challenge beaten him. He have been running on The Canterbury Tales for ten years or extra, and he changed into now not one quarter thru his original plan. He may additionally have felt he could not divide his time effectively between his writing and his business interests. Chaucer himself offers an explanation inside the “Retraction” which follows “The Parson’s Tale,” the final of The Canterbury Tales. In it Chaucer disclaims apologetically all of his impious works, especially “the memories of Caunterbury, thilke that sowen into synne.” There has been a few hypothesis approximately the “Retraction”: a few accept as true with that Chaucer in ill fitness confessed his impieties and others that the “Retraction” is merely conventional, Chaucer taking on the personality of the common-or-garden author, a stance favored within the Middle Ages. If the reader is to take Chaucer at his word, he seems to suggest that his works were being misread, that people had been mistaking the sinful conduct in The Canterbury Tales for its message.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThe closing thirteen years of Chaucer’s life correspond almost exactly to the span of years covered by means of Shakespeare’s Richard II, that is, the duration marked by way of Richard’s claiming his majority (he had emerge as king at age nine) and his assumption of the strength of the throne in 1389 until his deposition and death in 1399. The realm become marred by way of the energy struggles of the Lancastrian (Gaunt and his son, the eventual Henry IV) and Court (Richard) parties however Chaucer had connections in both camps, and over the dozen years of Richard’s reign it became viable to be of the courtroom with out being Gaunt’s enemy. That Chaucer become able to do this is indicated through the fact that Henry renewed annuities granted to Chaucer whilst Richard was king.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003ENonetheless, these seem to were financially trying times for Chaucer. His spouse obtained the remaining price of her annuity in 1387, which indicates she died within the following 12 months. Although Chaucer misplaced his submit as controller of customs in 1386, he have been appointed justice of peace for the County of Kent in 1385, and in 1389, following the approaching to energy of Richard, Chaucer turned into named clerk of public works. This put up, which amounted to being a sort of general contractor for the repair of public buildings, changed into greater profitable than the controller’s activity that he had misplaced, however it precipitated him no end of headaches. One of the obligations of this position required him to carry big sums of money, and in 1390 he was robbed of each his and the king’s cash three times in the space of four days. Though there was no direct punishment, he become appointed subforester of North Pemberton in Somerset. It appears that during 1390 or 1391 he turned into eased out of his clerk’s task; he in the end were given into financial trouble. In 1398 he borrowed in opposition to his annuity and turned into sued for debt.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EHis final poem, “The Complaint to his Purse,” is a letter asking King Henry for money. It is quite likely that in the remaining years of his existence, he turned into continuously asking the king, whoever he became, for money. The poem, or his connections to the Lancastrians, have to have worked because Chaucer turned into granted a giant annuity by using Henry. Nonetheless, Chaucer moved to a house inside the Westminster Abbey Close because a residence on church grounds granted him sanctuary from creditors. And so, from the truth of Chaucer’s money owed comes the tradition of burying poets, or erecting memorials to them, in Westminster Abbey. Chaucer died in 1400, the yr after the accession of Henry to the throne and additionally the yr after the demise of John of Gaunt, the king’s father. That Chaucer became buried in Westminster Abbey become due typically to the truth that his closing house become at the abbey grounds. 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text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zx6WfzzRP-o\/XZDqoufpi2I\/AAAAAAAAACY\/pBLIJBdLlRo1ypwe2_za3VHQ9bUkNYujwCPcBGAYYCw\/s1600\/Geoffrey%2BChaucer%2BBiography.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Geoffrey Chaucer\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"300\" data-original-width=\"300\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zx6WfzzRP-o\/XZDqoufpi2I\/AAAAAAAAACY\/pBLIJBdLlRo1ypwe2_za3VHQ9bUkNYujwCPcBGAYYCw\/s400\/Geoffrey%2BChaucer%2BBiography.jpg\" title=\"Geoffrey Chaucer\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EGeoffrey Chaucer\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Balade.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EMa dame, ye ben of al beaute shryne\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EAs fer as cercled is the mapamonde;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EFor as the cristall glorious ye shyne,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EAnd lyke ruby ben your chekys rounde.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003ETherwyth ye ben so mery and so iocunde\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThat at a reuell whan that I se you dance,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EIt is an oynement vnto my wounde,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThoght ye to me ne do no daliance.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EFor thogh I wepe of teres ful a tyne,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EYet may that wo myn herte nat confounde;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EYour semy voys that ye so small out twyne\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EMakyth my thoght in ioy and blys habounde.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003ESo curtaysly I go, wyth loue bounde,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThat to my self I sey, in my penaunce,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003ESuffyseth me to loue you, Rosemounde,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThogh ye to me ne do no daliaunce.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003ENas neuer pyk walwed in galauntyne\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EAs I in loue am walwed and iwounde;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EFor whych ful ofte I of my self deuyne\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThat I am trew Tristam the secunde.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EMy loue may not refreyde nor affounde;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EI brenne ay in an amorouse plesaunce.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EDo what you lyst, I wyl your thral be founde,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThogh ye to me ne do no daliance.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7797019267907920586\/comments\/default","title":"Post 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Rosemounde"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zx6WfzzRP-o\/XZDqoufpi2I\/AAAAAAAAACY\/pBLIJBdLlRo1ypwe2_za3VHQ9bUkNYujwCPcBGAYYCw\/s72-c\/Geoffrey%2BChaucer%2BBiography.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"34"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812273221048731664.post-6157124333537680817"},"published":{"$t":"2019-10-02T10:11:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-10-02T10:11:32.310-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Geoffrey Chaucer"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Love Unfeigned"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-D48k8DVoiIw\/XZTaIoWa5xI\/AAAAAAAAAEU\/183Q5zSpkIAvKwG5M4WfUvCMD29vW5FYgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/The%2BLove%2BUnfeigned.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"The Love Unfeigned\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1191\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-D48k8DVoiIw\/XZTaIoWa5xI\/AAAAAAAAAEU\/183Q5zSpkIAvKwG5M4WfUvCMD29vW5FYgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/The%2BLove%2BUnfeigned.jpg\" title=\"The Love Unfeigned\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003EThe Love Unfeigned\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EO Yonge fresshe folkes, he or she,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EIn which that love up groweth with your age,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003ERepeyreth hoom from worldly vanitee,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EAnd of your herte up-casteth the visage\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003ETo thilke god that after his image\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EYow made, and thinketh al nis but a fayre\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThis world, that passeth sone as floures fayre.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EAnd loveth him, the which that right for love\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EUpon a cros, our soules for to beye,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EFirst starf, and roos, and sit in hevene a-bove;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EFor he nil falsen no wight, dar I seye,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThat wol his herte al hoolly on him leye.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EAnd sin he best to love is, and most meke,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EWhat nedeth feyned loves for to seke?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6157124333537680817\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-love-unfeigned.html#comment-form","title":"282 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2812273221048731664\/posts\/default\/6157124333537680817"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2812273221048731664\/posts\/default\/6157124333537680817"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-love-unfeigned.html","title":"The Love 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auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-D-MREV1i6dM\/XZJHjaM4KxI\/AAAAAAAAAEA\/f-kodEEJ0OMh3XHREwuWhyfslCf-L_QKgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/Merciles%2BBeaute.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Geoffrey Chaucer\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"314\" data-original-width=\"311\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-D-MREV1i6dM\/XZJHjaM4KxI\/AAAAAAAAAEA\/f-kodEEJ0OMh3XHREwuWhyfslCf-L_QKgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/Merciles%2BBeaute.jpg\" title=\"Geoffrey Chaucer\" width=\"396\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EGeoffrey Chaucer\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EA Triple Roundel\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch2 style=\"margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -36.0pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003EI.\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003ECaptivity\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EYour yën two wol sle me sodenly,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI may the beaute of hem not sustene,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ESo woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EAnd but your word wol helen hastily\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EMy hertes wounde, whyl that hit is grene,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EYour yën two wol sle me sodenly; \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003Emay the beaute of hem not sustene.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EUpon my trouthe I sey yow feithfully,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EThat ye ben of my lyf and deth the quene;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EFor with my deth the trouthe shal be sene.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EYour yën two wol sle me sodenly,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI may the beaute of hem not sustene,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ESo woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EII. Rejection. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ESo hath your beaute fro your herte chaced\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EPitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EFor Daunger halt your mercy in his cheyne.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EGiltles my deth thus han ye me purchaced;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI sey yow soth, me nedeth not to feyne;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ESo hath your beaute fro your herle chaced\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EPilee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EAllas! that nature hath in yow compassed\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ESo gret beaute, that no man may atteyne\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ETo mercy, though he sterve for the peyne.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ESo hath your beaute fro your herte chaced\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EPitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EFor daunger halt your mercy in his cheyne.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EIII. Escape. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ESin I fro love escaped am so fat,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI never thenk to ben in his prison lene;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ESin I am fre, I counte him not a bene.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EHe may answere, and seye this or that;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI do no fors, I speke right as I mene.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ESin I fro love escaped am so fat,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI never thenk to ben in his prison lene.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ELove hath my name y-strike out of his sclat,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EAnd he is strike out of my bokes clene\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EFor ever-mo; [ther] is non other mene.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ESin I fro love escaped am so fat,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EI never thenk to ben in his prison lene;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003ESin I am fre, I counte him not a bene.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;verdana\u0026quot; , sans-serif;\"\u003EExplicit.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3446281738540457948\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/merciles-beaute.html#comment-form","title":"23 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2812273221048731664\/posts\/default\/3446281738540457948"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2812273221048731664\/posts\/default\/3446281738540457948"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/merciles-beaute.html","title":"Merciles Beaute"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-D-MREV1i6dM\/XZJHjaM4KxI\/AAAAAAAAAEA\/f-kodEEJ0OMh3XHREwuWhyfslCf-L_QKgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/Merciles%2BBeaute.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"23"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812273221048731664.post-7602048314785447885"},"published":{"$t":"2019-09-29T10:33:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-09-29T10:33:06.638-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Geoffrey Chaucer"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Geoffrey Chaucer Biography"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zx6WfzzRP-o\/XZDqoufpi2I\/AAAAAAAAACU\/nqMcsr5vmnkBHX1HSchd8flCAucvLmSRwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/Geoffrey%2BChaucer%2BBiography.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Geoffrey Chaucer Biography\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"300\" data-original-width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zx6WfzzRP-o\/XZDqoufpi2I\/AAAAAAAAACU\/nqMcsr5vmnkBHX1HSchd8flCAucvLmSRwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/Geoffrey%2BChaucer%2BBiography.jpg\" title=\"Geoffrey Chaucer Biography\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EGeoffrey Chaucer Biography\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EEnglish poet Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the unfinished work, The Canterbury Tales. It is considered one of the greatest poetic works in English.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003ESynopsis\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EPoet Geoffrey Chaucer was born circa 1340 in London, England. In 1357 he became a public servant to Countess Elizabeth of Ulster and continued in that capacity with the British court throughout his lifetime. The Canterbury Tales became his best known and most acclaimed work. He died October 25, 1400 in London, England, and was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EEarly Life\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EPoet Geoffrey Chaucer was born circa 1340, most likely at his parents’ house on Thames Street in London, England. Chaucer’s family was of the bourgeois class, descended from an affluent family who made their money in the London wine trade. According to some sources, Chaucer’s father, John, carried on the family wine business.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EGeoffrey Chaucer is believed to have attended the St. Paul’s Cathedral School, where he probably first became acquainted with the influential writing of Virgil and Ovid.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EIn 1357, Chaucer became a public servant to Countess Elizabeth of Ulster, the Duke of Clarence’s wife, for which he was paid a small stipend—enough to pay for his food and clothing. In 1359, the teenage Chaucer went off to fight in the Hundred Years’ War in France, and at Rethel he was captured for ransom. Thanks to Chaucer’s royal connections, King Edward III helped pay his ransom. After Chaucer’s release, he joined the Royal Service, traveling throughout France, Spain and Italy on diplomatic missions throughout the early to mid-1360s. For his services, King Edward granted Chaucer a pension of 20 marks.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EIn 1366, Chaucer married Philippa Roet, the daughter of Sir Payne Roet, and the marriage conveniently helped further Chaucer’s career in the English court.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EPublic Service\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EBy 1368, King Edward III had made Chaucer one of his esquires. When the queen died in 1369, it served to strengthen Philippa’s position and subsequently Chaucer’s as well.\u0026nbsp; From 1370 to 1373, he went abroad again and fulfilled diplomatic missions in Florence and Genoa, helping establish an English port in Genoa. He also spent time familiarizing himself with the work of Italian poets Dante and Petrarch along the way. By the time he returned, he and Philippa were prospering, and he was rewarded for his diplomatic activities with an appointment as Comptroller of Customs, a lucrative position. Meanwhile, Philippa and Chaucer were also granted generous pensions by John of Gaunt, the first duke of Lancaster.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EIn 1377 and 1388, Chaucer engaged in yet more diplomatic missions, with the objectives of finding a French wife for Richard II and securing military aid in Italy. Busy with his duties, Chaucer had little time to devote to writing poetry, his true passion. In 1385 he petitioned for temporary leave. For the next four years he lived in Kent but worked as a justice of the peace and later a Parliament member, rather than focusing on his writing.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EWhen Philippa passed away in 1387, Chaucer stopped sharing in her royal annuities and suffered financial hardship. He needed to keep working in public service to earn a living and pay off his growing accumulation of debt.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EMajor Works\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThe precise dates of many of Chaucer’s written works are difficult to pin down with certainty, but one thing is clear: His major works have retained their relevancy even in the college classroom of today.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EChaucer’s body of best-known works includes the Parliament of Fouls, otherwise known as the Parlement of Foules, in the Middle English spelling. Some historians of Chaucer’s work assert that it was written in 1380, during marriage negotiations between Richard and Anne of Bohemia. Critic J.A.W. Bennet interpreted the Parliament of Fouls as a study of Christian love. It had been identified as peppered with Neo-Platonic ideas inspired by the likes of poets Cicero and Jean De Meun, among others. The poem uses allegory, and incorporates elements of irony and satire as it points to the inauthentic quality of courtly love. Chaucer was well acquainted with the theme firsthand—during his service to the court and his marriage of convenience to a woman whose social standing served to elevate his own.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EChaucer is believed to have written the poem Troilus and Criseyde sometime in the mid-1380s. Troilus and Criseyde is a narrative poem that retells the tragic love story of Troilus and Criseyde in the context of the Trojan War. Chaucer wrote the poem using rime royal, a technique he originated. Rime royal involves rhyming stanzas consisting of seven lines apiece.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003ETroilus and Criseyde is broadly considered one of Chaucer’s greatest works, and has a reputation for being more complete and self-contained than most of Chaucer’s writing, his famed The Canterbury Tales being no exception.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThe period of time over which Chaucer penned The Legend of Good Women is uncertain, although most scholars do agree that Chaucer seems to have abandoned it before its completion. The queen mentioned in the work is believed to be Richard II’s wife, Anne of Bohemia. Chaucer’s mention of the real-life royal palaces Eltham and Sheen serve to support this theory. In writing The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer played with another new and innovative format: The poem comprises a series of shorter narratives, along with the use of iambic pentameter couplets (seen for the first time in English).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThe Canterbury Tales is by far Chaucer’s best known and most acclaimed work. Initially Chaucer had planned for each of his characters to tell four stories a piece. The first two stories would be set as the character was on his\/her way to Canterbury, and the second two were to take place as the character was heading home. Apparently, Chaucer’s goal of writing 120 stories was an overly ambitious one. In actuality, The Canterbury Tales is made up of only 24 tales and rather abruptly ends before its characters even make it to Canterbury. The tales are fragmented and varied in order, and scholars continue to debate whether the tales were published in their correct order. Despite its erratic qualities, The Canterbury Tales continues to be acknowledged for the beautiful rhythm of Chaucer’s language and his characteristic use of clever, satirical wit.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EA Treatise on the Astrolabe is one of Chaucer’s nonfiction works. It is an essay about the astrolabe, a tool used by astronomers and explorers to locate the positions of the sun, moon and planets. Chaucer planned to write the essay in five parts but ultimately only completed the first two. Today it is one of the oldest surviving works that explain how to use a complex scientific tool, and is thought to do so with admirable clarity.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003ELater Life\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EFrom 1389 to 1391, after Richard II had ascended to the throne, Chaucer held a draining and dangerous position as Clerk of the Works. He was robbed by highwaymen twice while on the job, which only served to further compound his financial worries. To make matters even worse, Chaucer had stopped receiving his pension. Chaucer eventually resigned the position for a lower but less stressful appointment as sub-forester, or gardener, at the King’s park in Somersetshire.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EWhen Richard II was deposed in 1399, his cousin and successor, Henry IV, took pity on Chaucer and reinstated Chaucer’s former pension. With the money, Chaucer was able to lease an apartment in the garden of St. Mary’s Chapel in Westminster, where he lived modestly for the rest of his days.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EDeath\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"\u003EThe legendary 14th century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer died October 25, 1400 in London, England. He died of unknown causes and was 60 years old at the time. Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey. His gravestone became the center of what was to be called Poet’s Corner, a spot where such famous British writers as Robert Browning and Charles Dickens were later honored and interred.\u003C\/span\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7602048314785447885\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/geoffrey-chaucer-biography.html#comment-form","title":"90 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2812273221048731664\/posts\/default\/7602048314785447885"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2812273221048731664\/posts\/default\/7602048314785447885"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/geoffrey-chaucer-biography.html","title":"Geoffrey Chaucer Biography"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zx6WfzzRP-o\/XZDqoufpi2I\/AAAAAAAAACU\/nqMcsr5vmnkBHX1HSchd8flCAucvLmSRwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/Geoffrey%2BChaucer%2BBiography.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"90"}}]}});