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The Making of Chaucer's English

by Christopher Cannon

1998 435 pages eng

"This book is a study of Chaucer's words. It describes how these words became evidence for calling Chaucer the 'father of English poetry' but, also, how that label is wrong. It shows that Chaucer's language is, in fact, traditional and argues that his linguistic innovation was as much performance as…

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