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Old 05-12-2009, 04:23 PM   #1
Voronwen
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Middle English is so beautiful. Sometimes I just walk around reciting the first fourteen lines of CT. "Whan that April with his shoores soote," etc.
I agree about Middle English, with my whole heart!

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Anyone read Troilus and Criseyde? I read it this summer, along with the Canterbury Tales, and preferred it to the tales in some ways. Some passages are beautiful, and as a longer work there's more time for the story to develop.
I absolutely LOVED Troilus and Criseyde!


(Yes... hopeless romantic, here! )
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List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest ... "

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