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2. Geoffrey Chaucer (born 1340/44, died 1400) is
remembered as the author of The Canterbury Tales,
which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of
world literature. Chaucer made a crucial contribution
to English literature in using English at a time when
much court poetry was still written in Anglo-Norman
or Latin.
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London. He was the
son of a prosperous wine merchant and deputy to the
king's butler, and his wife Agnes. Little is known of
his early education, but his works show that he could
read French, Latin, and Italian.
Geoffrey Chaucer
3. The Canterbury Tales is the most famous and critically
acclaimed work of Geoffrey Chaucer, a late- fourteenth-
century English poet. Chaucer’s original plan for The
Canterbury Tales was for each character to tell four tales,
two on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back. But,
instead of 120 tales, the text ends after twenty-four tales,
and the party is still on its way to Canterbury.
Chaucer either planned to revise the structure to stop the
work at twenty-four tales, or else left it incomplete when he
died on October 25, 1400.William Caxton, England’s first
printer, published The Canterbury Tales in the 1470s, and it
continued to enjoy a rich printing history that never truly
faded
Canterbury Tales
4. A Clerk – that is, an Oxford scholar – who
Looked hollow to his bones, and threadbare, too,
Rode with us on a nag lean as a rake.
The youth was poor, and starved for learning’s sake.
He’d rather spend his gold on books than food,
Or on gay clothes or fun, as others would.
Of ethics and philosophy he read,
Kept Aristotle right beside his bed.
He seldom spoke; but what he said was clear,
And full of sense, so that you wished to hear;
Of high ideals and virtue was his speech;
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.
The Oxford Scholar
5. Clerk-a member of the clergy
Scholar-a specialist in a particular branch of study,
especially the humanities
Hollow-a hole or empty space inside
Bones-any of the pieces of hard, whitish tissue
making up the skeleton in humans and other
vertebrates
Threadbare-becoming thin and tattered with
age/poor or shabby in appearance
Nag-annoy or irritate with persistent fault-finding
or continuous urging
Lean-be in or move into a sloping position
Definitions
6. Rake-a fashionable or wealthy man of promiscuous
habits
Starve- Suffer severely or die from hunger
Sake-out of consideration for or in order to help
someone
Ethics-moral principles that govern a person’s or
group’s behavior
Philosophy-the study of the fundamental nature of
knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when
considered as an academic discipline
Aristotle-(384-322BC)Greek philosopher and
scientist.
Ideal-satisfying one’s conception of what is perfect
Virtue-behavior showing high moral standards
7. Клерк- то есть, оксфордский ученый это тот
Который худой и костлявый и изношенный также
Ездил с нами и худым был как грабли
Молодым был беден и голоден для обучения ради
Предпочитал тратиться на книги, чем на еду
Или на одежду для забавы ради
Начитан был этикой и философией
Хранил Аристотеля около кровати
Он редко говорил, но что он говорил, было ясно
И шутя доносил мысли вслух
Ноты идеалов и добродетелей включали его речи
И с удовольствием учился и преподавал
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