![]() ![]() Now I know I’ve let slip too many typos in these notes before today, but that’s not a particularly bad day at the keyboard-instead, it’s Chaucer’s version of English as spoken in the 15th Century. ![]() The droghte of march hath perced to the roote” The oldest of these, is today’s post “The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales” which begins: A series of stories ostensibly told by various tellers together for this trip became the great early work of English literature: Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.”Īpril is National Poetry Month in the US, and though this celebration’s founders give no exact reason for April being chosen, two widely known poems explicitly start in April, and whether it’s cause or effect, I think of these poems when I think of April and National Poetry Month. In the Middle Ages, in England, one pilgrimage had the greatest potential to bring a diverse group together, the pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Canterbury where the sainted Thomas Becket had been assassinated. Many religious traditions include the idea of a such journeys, and one side-effect of a shared destination is the mingling of travelers from diverse setting-off points along the trail. One way to get experience is to seek it through the directed travel of a pilgrimage. ![]()
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