Word: chaucer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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English Readings. "Chaucer's Knight's Tale" concluded. Professor Child. Sever...
English Readings. Chaucer's Knight's Tale (continued). Professor Child, Sever...
Professor Child will read Chaucer's Knights Tale this evening at Sever...
PROFESSOR CHILD'S first Chaucer reading, on Monday last, drew out a large audience, although not so large a proportion was composed of students as would naturally be supposed. Unlike the classical translations, these readings come but once a year, and then only occupy three or four evenings at most. Were not the interest in English literature at Harvard at so low an ebb, it would indeed be a matter of surprise that any member of the University should fail at some time during his residence in Cambridge to attend one of these ever-memorable Chaucer readings...
...work of the Chaucer Society is of great interest to all students of Chaucer, and there is urgent need of new members in order to enlarge to the utmost its capabilities; and we fail to see why Harvard, already so justly renowned in classics, mathematics, and philology, should look with sluggish indifference upon the great field of early English literature, where "the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few." The glory of Chaucer's poetry will surely not grow dim in future years, nor the sweet music of our morning of song die away. Let all lovers...