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EPISODE · Apr 30, 2025 · 5 MIN

Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales"

from The Daily Poem · host Sean Johnson

Though J. R. R. Tolkien translated portions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, he did not live to complete the project. Fortunately another Inkling, Nevill Coghill, succeeded where Tolkien could not, and produced the modernized verse-rendering that today’s selection comes from. Happy reading! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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