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Slide 2 British Literature Of the Medieval Times Slide 3 Father of the English language and poetry Working class Second only to Shakespeare Slide 4 Slide 5 Slide 6 2 tales down 2 tales back unfinished Observational Indirect attacks Rhymed couplets Slide 7 Cross section of medieval times and people Prologue purpose is to introduce the piece by establishing setting, purpose, and characters Slide 8 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, Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his half cours y-ronne And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open y (So priketh hem nature in hir corages), Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes; And specially from every shires ende Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende... Slide 9