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Patris's avatar

How beautiful to sit and read these words in a patch of sunlight and inhaling the scent and taste from my coffee cup…

Chaucer took romance and whimsy and continued the tradition of longing in these exclamations of love - handing them off to Shakespeare and Marlowe- and Elliot later, right to this spot. Thank you for your expert offerings. I truly enjoyed these..grateful.

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Michael R. Burch's avatar

Chaucer was the first wave of a new kind of English poetry, and he remains one of the best poets all these centuries later. I especially love "Merciless Beauty" and hope my translation brings it more attention.

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