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The Canterbury Tales

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Chaucer's medieval work whose conventional spring opening lines are inverted by T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land.

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"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."
what are you currently reading · diggyydog · ↑211 · 2023-04-20
"These lines are an inversion of those with which Chaucer opens The Canterbury Tales: Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour"
Thoughts on The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot · u/the-woman-respecter · ↑84 · 2023-04-01
"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"
what are you currently reading · u/diggyydog · ↑211 · 2023-04-20
"These lines are an inversion of those with which Chaucer opens *The Canterbury Tales*"
Thoughts on The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot · u/the-woman-respecter · ↑84 · 2023-04-01
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