"am currently reading the canterbury tales (unabridged, about 60% of the way through) and it surprised me how actually funny a guy from like, 1380 can be."
"Chaucer has a much more conventional view of April and the onset of spring, couching it in the usual terms of renewal and fertility. Eliot, while acknowledging the traditional April showers and the flowers they bring, does so in much more ambiguous language."