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Encounters with Chaucer
Our second year Middle English course had excluded anything by Chaucer, so it was no surprise to find that for those of us on scheme C, Chaucer was the entirety of our third year Middle English exposure. The main required text was the massive 1000+ page Robinson edition of the Complete Works, which was an…
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Starting the final lap
All of the material I have for my second year at Leeds has now been covered in previous posts. There was a course on the History of Criticism, about which I remember little, except that we complained because we couldn’t hear the lecturer – no microphones in those days. So we move on now to…