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Chaucer

Great Writers Inspire

English - April 17, 2012 15:16 - 14 minutes - 101 MB Video - ★★★ - 166 ratings
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Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first to use everyday spoken English as a literary language in the 14th Century.