Word: chaucer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Against Pity. Colette's characters are sensitive to pain, but because they live according to the laws of what Chaucer calls "Merciles Beaute," they can never expect pity. The queen herself had so ordained it. "Suffering," said Colette, "is perhaps a childish business . . . It is very painful . . . But I am afraid [it] deserves no consideration whatsoever...
...Along Eliot's five feet of authors: Milton, Emerson, Virgil, Robert Burns, Goethe, Adam Smith, William Penn, Dante, Darwin, Homer. Among the omissions T.R. protested: Aristotle, Thucydides, Chaucer, Moliere...
...Gibbon, writing in the Decline and Fall, scornfully dismissed them as "the triumph of barbarism and religion." - Dawson rates Langland's contemporary, Chaucer, as more of a courtly storyteller who "took the world as he found it," very like his Italian opposite number. Boccaccio. Not so Langland, who wrote bitterly of his times...
...arbitrary fashion, and may get his degree on the basis of a course in Donne, a course in Elizabethan stagecraft, a course in Yeats and Eliot, a course in Joyce, a course in the modern American novel, and some courses in 'creative writing' - having read nothing of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, or Keats ... It is also true that, as a result of a rather scholastic training in critical methodology, he often finds himself equipped with a technique [and a vocabulary] of analysis which bears no relation at all to the reasons why he in fact enjoys works of literature...
From my hazy memory of school, my little old knotty skull was so busy entertaining cube roots of things and the preterit of foreign languages and that old "whan that Aprile" business from Chaucer that I didn't really have time to lend my learned opinions to Mr. Roosevelt's new brain trust. For one thing, I didn't really have time to lend my learned opinions to Mr. Roosevelt's new brain trust. For one thing, I didn't have any opinions. Robert Ruark, New York World Telegram and Sun, November...