It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England). The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury. Chaucer's intention was that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back. ... The Squire personifies all the courtly chivalric qualities which his father does not expose. ... The Squire is a striking contrast to his father. ...

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In Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval poem, The Canterbury Tales, the knight is the first pilgrim described in the General Prologue and the first to proclaim his tale. ... Chaucer is also known as the "father of English poetry", for who so passionately loved his literature, made his love his work, and his work his last breath. ... Every pilgrim was honored to be in the presence of the knight, for they valued so much his humble and wise example. ... The knight's portrait "contrasts to the other pilgrims, as his focus was on morality, rather than physical appearance (Rossignol198)." ...

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(A)The Canterbury Tales is a poem that was written somewhere between 1386 and 1385 by a man named Geoffrey Chaucer; in which 30 characters on a pilgrimage to Canterbury coincidentally meet at a tavern, where they are challenged to tell the best story during their pilgrimage for the reward of a free...

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?Prioress? (A) O Lord, Our Lord, thy works how marvelous are given as gifts through Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales. For not alone thy praise so glorious is given by several characters traveling to the Cathedral at Canterbury. Wherefore in praise, as best he can or may, Chaucer tries to t...

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