Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales"
The Daily Poem · Sean Johnson
April 30, 20255m 37s
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Show Notes
Though J. R. R. Tolkien translated portions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, he did not live to complete the project. Fortunately another Inkling, Nevill Coghill, succeeded where Tolkien could not, and produced the modernized verse-rendering that today’s selection comes from. Happy reading!
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