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Title: Festival of song: a series of evenings with the poets
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: (Saunders, Frederick), 1807-1902
Subjects: English poetry American poetry
Publisher: New York, Bunce and Huntington
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Chaucer. Surrey, tiidney, Raleigh, Spenser, Shakspeare. .Tonson, Beaumont, Shirley, Garew, Lovelace, Lyly, Titchbourne. Marlow, Daniel. Lodge, Herrick, King, Y.^otton, Suckling.
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EOFFREY CHAUCER, thatworthy minstrel-monk, first in theorder of Anglican poets, thus prefaces his Canterbury Tales:— Befelle, that, in that seson on a day,In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay,Redy to wenden on my pilgrimageTo Canterbury with devoute corage,3 At nighte was come Into that hostelrieWei nine and twenty in a compagnieOf sondry folk, by aventure yfalleIn felawship, and pilgrimes were they alle,That toward Canterbury wolden ride.The chambres and the stables weren wide,And wel we weren esed atte beste. Although written nearly five centuries ago, this work, notwith-standing its obsoleteness of style, has never been more popularamong scholars than it is at this time. There is, indeed, to usof the present day, a charm in its very antiquity, as Campbellremarks,— something picturesque in it,—like the moss and ivy onsome majestic ruin. This noble production of the early English muse, which wasprobably suggested by the Decameron of Boccaccio^ supposes a com-pany to have convene

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