ENG202Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Great Vowel Shift, Geoffrey Chaucer, Protestant Reformation
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Eng202 chaucer"s the miller"s tale and prologue. Referred to as a paternal figure shorty after his lifespan. Perhaps the least e(cid:374)glish of all early figures i(cid:374) e(cid:374)glish lit (cid:448)ery (cid:272)os(cid:373)opolita(cid:374), read (cid:373)ultiple la(cid:374)guages a(cid:374)d tra(cid:374)slated (cid:373)a(cid:374)y (cid:449)orks . Chau(cid:272)er"s (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)it(cid:373)e(cid:374)t to (cid:449)riti(cid:374)g i(cid:374) e(cid:374)glish (cid:448)er(cid:374)a(cid:272)ular; i(cid:374)terest i(cid:374) italia(cid:374) humanism and objective of being a great english poet. Dante: we should be writing in our vernacular language rather than. Latin or whatever else, as homer and virgil did. Act of true religion during the protestant reformation bans literature with religious content, ruling out many other medieval authors. Early use of forms like iambic pentameter. First english writer to read and respond to the italian renaissance: o(cid:271)fus(cid:272)atio(cid:374) of chau(cid:272)er"s (cid:449)riti(cid:374)g. Great vowel shift in oral and simultaneous solidification of written english makes for a tumultuous time for the language; difficult to read for that reason.
