The most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt to conceal their peculiarities. The four tales that follow - those of the Knight, ...
The most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt to conceal their peculiarities. The four tales that follow - those of the Knight, Miller, Reeve and Cook - reveal a wide variety of human preoccupations: whether chivalrous, romantic or simply sexual. Brilliantly bawdy and subtly complex, each of these tales is alive with Chaucer's skills as a poet, storyteller and creator of comedy.
《坎特伯雷故事》翻开了英国文学史上崭新的一页
Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote
The droghte of Marche hath perced†to the rote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
The Canterbury Cathedral housed the shrine of an English saint,Thomas Becket,who was martyred in the 1100s. The pilgrims of different social classes embarked on their journey towards the said cathedra...The Canterbury Cathedral housed the shrine of an English saint,Thomas Becket,who was martyred in the 1100s. The pilgrims of different social classes embarked on their journey towards the said cathedral when chivalry declined and merchants rose to prominence,a powerful middle class emerged,belonging neither to the nobility nor to the working class.(展开)
2 有用 crab canon 2012-07-21 12:59:49
《坎特伯雷故事》翻开了英国文学史上崭新的一页 Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced†to the rote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
1 有用 石独步∆ 2013-02-13 07:29:30
就读了The Men of Law's Tale读了我2个多小时.....故事还是蛮好玩的....还是离不开宗教..
0 有用 木其 2011-11-01 14:08:36
1000年前的人写的东西。其实以前的人和我们的思想都有相似之处。感觉很神奇。
0 有用 凌晓风 2010-12-27 18:29:54
undeniably a masterpiece
0 有用 硫随 2021-07-03 11:30:00
The Canterbury Cathedral housed the shrine of an English saint,Thomas Becket,who was martyred in the 1100s. The pilgrims of different social classes embarked on their journey towards the said cathedra... The Canterbury Cathedral housed the shrine of an English saint,Thomas Becket,who was martyred in the 1100s. The pilgrims of different social classes embarked on their journey towards the said cathedral when chivalry declined and merchants rose to prominence,a powerful middle class emerged,belonging neither to the nobility nor to the working class. (展开)