Chaucer too celebrates this month, together with his favourite flower, the daisy. In a Prologue to his “The Legend of Good Women”, after explaining his devotion to reading and study, he anticipates by four hundred years Wordsworth’s abandonment of books for Nature, as related in our March programme. Chaucer writes: And as for me, though […]
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February 1 Geoffrey Chaucer
Parlement of Foules Geoffrey Chaucer Now welcome, somer, with thy sonne softe, That hast this wintres wedres over-shake, And driven away the longe nyghtes blake! Saynt Valentyn, that art ful hy on-lofte, Thus syngen smale foules for thy sake: Now welcome, somer, with thy sonne softe, That hast this wintres wedres over-shake. Wel han they […]