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Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Comparison of Chaucer and Ovid

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Full text of John Dryden's (1631-1700) Preface to The Fables (1700), the English poet's translation of Chaucer texts from the middle English. Dryden compares the styles of Ovid, Chaucer, and Boccaccio.

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chaucer. geoffrey, medieval, "the canterbury tales", "the fables", boccaccio, chaucer, middle ages, ovid, other writings and analyses of geoffrey chaucer
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