Today’s Poem: Canterbury Tales
The opening of Chaucer’s General Prologue and the joys of an English April
We begin the end of April (famous in some quarters as the cruellest month) with that other immortal first line: the opening of the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales. With a dependent clause, “Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,” Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400) sweeps us up into t…
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