"As he is the Father of English Poetry, so I hold him in the same Degree of Veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil:..."
John Dryden in the Preface to "Fables, Ancient and Modern" (1700)
Judy Rose has written: 'Mummy said the 'b' word' -- subject(s): English Humorous poetry, Humorous poetry, English 'Fridge over troubled water' -- subject(s): English poetry
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Chaucer wrote in Middle English (although of course he didn't think of it that way; he would have said he was writing in Englisshe). Chaucer wrote in what is now called Middle English. Middle English has many words and spellings that are still the same in English today, though it was pronounced very differently, and a modern English reader can make some sense of it. Old English was used about 200 years earlier and is a mixture of early German and Scandinavian. It used letters which are not in the modern alphabet and has almost nothing in common with modern English in spelling or meaning.
Because king Henry was too addicted to pie to care about the future.
yes there is my teacher said so
that's what she said
Confucius
Commerical rap is poetry with a beat behind it. Freestyle rap is poetry said from "the top of the head". Epic poetry is a story told through a poem.
Yes, Robert Pinsky said that poetry is an ancient technology.
Things My Father Said was created in 2008.
Read the Canterbury Tales. As Chaucer once said, "Women want dominance over the male."
There is no film titled "The Nights Tale". There is "A Knight's Tale" (2001).