Talk:The Canterbury Tales

The image appears to be overwriting the text - can someone please correct this pronto? Deb

Looks fine to me. (Mozilla 1.1b and IE 5.5 on Windows 2000; tried both large and small window sizes; using Standard skin.) --Brion

How about a list of the tales, with or without a summary of each? It's probably a bit over the top to have a subpage for each one though. Maybe a few quotes from the tales (eg. Whan that Aprille with his shoures soghte... (Gen. Pr. 1)) would be good too. --Magnus 09:52 Apr 25, 2003 (UTC)

Deleted the Reference to Germanic English; Chaucer's linguistic choice was to use the London or Southern dialect of Middle English, rather than Latin or French. I inserted ft nstead of using French or Latin, which were usually used for literary works

Added a brief list of the many genres used in CT DigitalMedievalist 21:13, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Is it really fair to say "Perhaps the greatest contribution that this work has made to English literature is in its use of vulgar (i.e. 'of the people') English, instead of using French or Latin, which were usually used for literary works."? Gower, Langland and the Gawain poet were all contemporaries of Chaucer who wrote major literary works in English. The Gawain poet may not have been very influential, but Langland and Gower certainly were.Harry R 11:03, 24 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Chaucer's work was more popularized and more widely distributed. The sentence also does not preclude similar influences by his contemporaries. But by all means mention them in a new sentence and place that sentence just after the one you quoted. --mav 08:04, 25 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

No, Chaucer's work was definitely more influential. We have more manuscripts of Chaucer than of Gower and Lydgate combined, suggesting that he was more poular than either (this is born out by contemporary third party records as well) Chaucer was printed earlier and more often that either Gower or Lydgate, and the orthographic and vocabulary used in books post Chaucer/Lydgate/Gower strongly reflects Chaucer's choices, rather than either Lydgate or Gower. The Gawain poet was probably read with great difficulty by those outside of the West Midlands, if he was read at all. DigitalMedievalist 02:26, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC) Lydgate

Shouldnt this be at The Canterbury Tales?--Jia ng 13:46, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

This doesn't appear to comment on Chaucer's importing of European influence, particularly the 'metre or iambic style, starting the trend to consign appalling anglian alliteration to dust. Shouldn't it? Icundell 11:57, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

is the list of tales in the correct order? I just read a article, George Lynam Kittredge's "Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage" from 1920, that implied that the three tales from the marriage group follow each other, the wife of bath >>> the squire >>> the franklin...

Unfortunatly I don't have time to check this out, any voulnenteers? 144.124.16.33 19:34, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

What happened to the Canterbury Tales template? -R. fiend 22:55, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Err I dunno what did happen it is till there that I can see. MeltBanana 22:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Moved from article

i believe that short stories from the 19th century are very important else we would never had our great stories nowadays - quoted by amanda bushell in the 19th century short stories were very popular. most of our stories nowadays come from the 19th century told from people from generation 2 generation yay! - quoted by emma lampitt User:217.33.74.20 moved from article Alf ^melmac 13:24, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

what has happened?

Someone has deleted virtually the whole site. can someone please put this back