There are also extensive references in Hopkins's writings to Old and Middle English, in particular to Chaucer. |
Though it is the painful season of Christ's agony and death, it belongs in Chaucer to the elemental happiness rising from the resurrecting earth. |
Because of her obnoxious attitude Chaucer makes her toothless, fat and large. |
If Chaucer were alive today, and armed with a shotgun, there wouldn't be a jury in the land who'd convict. |
To play Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight's Tale, he made his entrance stark naked. |
Of the Middle English poets, Chaucer is the one who displays most knowledge of wine, although he tends to mention different wines only briefly. |