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Chaucer and early British poetry
Study note
British poetry is among the richest in the world. The Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf tells of a hero's battles against monsters. From the Middle Ages we still have Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, set at the court of King Arthur.
Memory tip: Beowulf (Anglo-Saxon); Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain (Middle Ages).
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Who wrote the medieval poem the Canterbury Tales?
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