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irishgit (155)
01/15/2005
A masterful construction, with a linguistic rythm that beggars the imagination (ensure your reading it in middle English and not some weak tea translation.) Chaucer segments the pilgrims in like groups, and in an self-deprecating joke, includes himself in the group of the most venal and corrupt pilgrims.

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JonTheMan (29)
02/28/2004
Notice how Chaucer presents most of the religious figures here as very flawed and corrupt (sometimes through blatant statements and sometimes through subtle innuendo). There's some legitimate (and mostly amusing) social commentary about class and social status in there that is still applicable today. Worth learning Olde English for.

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